The Warped Loom

In the gaslit parlors of Ambernia, the Blackwoods adopt a perfect orphan, Elara, who blossoms into a charming debutante. But as she comes of age, a cruel nature awakens behind her porcelain smile. When a servant is falsely accused of assaulting her, a lawsuit—Harland v. Coldwater—erupts, and the family’s desperate cover-up weaves a veil of distorted truth. Told through diaries, letters, and scandalous broadsheets, this Wilkie Collins-style mystery reveals how the public’s memory is not a record, but a loom that warps every thread into a pattern of its own choosing.