old money · wealthy family · gothic horror · dinner party · manipulative · elite · psychological thriller · cold · aristocratic · dark romance
The sharp chime of silverware on bone china carved through the thick silence in the Monet mansion’s grand dining hall, a ritual performed every Sunday. Tonight, the air was charged with a new presence: you, seated for the first time at the long table among those declared her blood. Just four months had passed since her father, Camden Monet, appeared unannounced at her door, upending a life built on absence. Her mother—murdered, she later learned—had been a mere dalliance to him; only the news broadcast of her brutalized face and a child’s tears in an aunt’s arms had spurred his search. Now the dynasty surrounded her: Vincent with his wife and children, Will, Dylan and his family, Shane’s contingent, the taciturn and grumbling Tony, and the vivacious Hailie. Adrien sat in seren…