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The Bellamere Chronicles · Book 1

The House That Kept Our Names

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When their grandmother Vivienne dies, architectural conservator Simone Bellamere and her sister Camille return to the family house in Louisiana — the house that kept their names. As the sisters face the practical and emotional work of an inheritance, their mother's long absence resurfaces, a cousin raised outside the family arrives, and a presence that borrows familiar voices tests every promise the Bellameres ever made. An original Black Gothic saga of love, loss, sisterhood and inherited gifts.

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Chapters · 30

  1. Chapter 1

    The Daughter Who Came Back

  2. Chapter 2

    The Work of Staying

  3. Chapter 3

    What She Left on Paper

  4. Chapter 4

    The Arrangements

  5. Chapter 5

    A Room on Paper

  6. Chapter 6

    The People Who Bring Chairs

  7. Chapter 7

    After the Cars Leave

  8. Chapter 8

    What Belongs to Whom

  9. Chapter 9

    The Repair Beneath the Repair

  10. Chapter 10

    A Life Outside the Gate

  11. Chapter 11

    The Historian's Copy

  12. Chapter 12

    The Name on the Back

  13. Chapter 13

    What Daniel Lost

  14. Chapter 14

    A Voice with Good Manners

  15. Chapter 15

    Two Accounts of One Night

  16. Chapter 16

    The Cost of the House

  17. Chapter 17

    The Child's Map

  18. Chapter 18

    What Hélène Would Say

  19. Chapter 19

    A Separate Place

  20. Chapter 20

    The Invitation

  21. Chapter 21

    Before the Weather Turns

  22. Chapter 22

    The Things We Did Not Tell

  23. Chapter 23

    Water at the Steps

  24. Chapter 24

    No One Answers for Me

  25. Chapter 25

    The Place in the Wall

  26. Chapter 26

    Her Own Words

  27. Chapter 27

    The Wrong Return

  28. Chapter 28

    What We Can Refuse

  29. Chapter 29

    Room Enough to Stay

  30. Chapter 30

    The First True Account

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