Stripped by Marlowe Kaine

Thirty days. One house. A century of secrets. When architectural historian Tatum Ellory breaks into her late grandmother’s Victorian home to steal back her family’s heritage, she expects to find empty rooms. Instead, she finds Silas Vance. Cold, calculating, and driven by a twelve-year obsession to prove his powerful father is a murderer, Silas bought the property at auction to tear it apart. When he discovers Tatum inside, he doesn't call the police. He changes the locks. Trapped together under a thirty-day legal freeze order, Tatum and Silas are forced into an agonizingly close proximity within a house that was built to keep people safe—but is now keeping them captive. As they navigate narrow hallways and shared spaces, they uncover a hidden network of secret rooms and a forty-four-year-old archive documenting the darkest corners of domestic survival. But the most dangerous thing in the house isn't the evidence hidden in the walls. It's the consuming, undeniable gravity pulling them together. Stripped is an intense, claustrophobic romantic suspense about the walls we build to survive, and the people who finally teach us how to tear them down.