A Hemorrhage of Us by Roslyn Reed

A lyrical, gut-deep folk-horror romance where grief opens the door to something ancient—and desire becomes a kind of possession. A Hemorrhage of Us follows a woman returning to the town that treated her like an omen, only to find the forest (and the house she fled) remembers her… and something in the woods has been waiting.

Rayne Dorne has always known she was different. Between the illness she hides under layers of clothing and the way the people of Bury, Pennsylvania watch her like she’s bad luck, she never got to be anything else. She wanted to leave that town—and what it made of her—behind forever.

Then her parents die suddenly, and a strange call from her estranged brother drags her back to the house she swore she’d never enter again. A house that feels alive. A house that remembers.

The woods around Bury are haunted, and everyone knows the rules: don’t wander after dark, and never answer when you hear your name after the sun goes down. Hawthorne is one of the entities in those woods—woven from hunger and the dead of winter—and they seem to know Rayne in ways no human ever has. With their attention fixed on her, Rayne is pulled into a dangerous game whether she understands it or not.

Because spirits collect on their debts.
And what starts as a haunting becomes an unholy tether—a bond that turns desire into a door… and may be the very thing that destroys them both.