Through the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records

Through the Iron Gate of the Silverton Estate, Stella Caldwell encounters a history that was never meant to find her. When the Silverton Foundation divests two residential cottages on its historic New England Estate, Stella Caldwell and her grandmother, Helen, gain access to Rosemere, the Foundress's long-sealed private cottage. What they discover inside calls into question everything the Silverton's benevolent mythology has protected since its Victorian origins: records concealed for generations, a botanical cipher drawn from the ancient Welsh healing tradition of the Physicians of Myddfai, and evidence that the beings who once moved through Silverton's margins did not intervene equally for everyone. What was known to be a botanical preserve and garden sanctuary, with its precise herb quadrants, fountain court, and ancient cedar groves reveals the darker memory that persists in soil, water, and root. Through archival discovery, threshold vision, and Elizabeth Silverton's secret journals, Stella and Helen must piece together fragments that have been sealed, scattered, and forgotten, including that of Stella's brother. Gothic mystery and archival elegy, Through the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records explores identity, inheritance, lost personal histories, and adoption records, and the dangerous grace of stories told to protect what cannot be undone. For readers of Diane Setterfield, Neil Gaiman, and the gothic tradition of Brontë and du Maurier.