When the reclusive Aidan Grieve welcomes Amélie Lewis into his home, she expects that she's been granted a quiet mercy: a place to recover from illness. Instead, she finds a manor that seems to remember things she does not.
As her strength returns, so do fractures she can't explain. A different name on her tongue. A garden that blooms only at night. A love story that ended in violence centuries ago... and may not be as finished as Aidan insists. In the medieval courts of Avluria, ambition was fueled in secret and paid for in blood. In the present day, consequences are still unfolding. Because some power doesn't fade with time. It ferments. It putrefies. PUTRESCENCE IN HER PERIPHERALS is a dual timeline gothic dark fantasy about immortality, a hidden curse, and the rot that power leaves behind.