Grief built the monster. Love keeps it alive. He said it was an accident. A storm, a slip, a single mistake that stole his daughter’s life. But grief curdled into something else. Something darker. Now, in the shadows of his isolated home, women are taken. Each one is measured, tested, remade. He tells himself it’s love. He tells himself it’s redemption. He couldn’t save her. So he rewrote her. Eliza wakes in his world of rules and rituals, where every choice is a test she doesn’t understand and failure is not forgiven. The walls whisper with the ghosts of the women before her and the terrible secret of what he’s trying to rebuild. Some fathers can’t let go. Some daughters don’t get to leave. This book is a chilling psychological thriller about grief, obsession, and the terrifying lengths a parent will go to recreate what death has taken.