Read it in the Green Room

House of Rayne

Harley Laroux

Kensington Books

The publisher describes this as a standalone sapphic gothic romance with mystery and supernatural elements, making it a fit for readers seeking gothic atmosphere and a self-contained story.

Beta invites go out in waitlist order. One devlog email a month, at most — or just read the devlog.

The Green Room

Backstage of House of Rayne.

Walk in mid-chapter. The people of the book are there, as themselves, knowing what they know so far — and nothing else. Ask them anything. They have read exactly as far as you have.

A moment in the Green Room

House of Rayne · Harley Laroux

The narrator

Of House of Rayne, as they are at your reading place

You

What happens next?

The narrator

“I can only tell you what you have read. Past your page there is nothing yet — not for you, and not for me. Turn it, and come back.”

Their knowledge stops where your reading does.

Illustrative conversation. The app answers from the passages you have read.

Who is in the room

Anyone who has walked on by your page.

The cast

Any character who has appeared so far. Someone who hasn’t walked on yet isn’t in the room. That’s not a limitation; that’s the point.

The narrator

The voice telling you the story, as far as it has told it.

The author

As the book presents them — the mind behind the pages you have read, not a biography.

The book itself

Ask what it is doing to you so far. It answers from its own pages, up to yours.

Before you go in

What critics and prize juries said.

Editorial synthesis

Publishers Weekly praises the book’s blend of embodied horror and erotic romance, describing its gothic atmosphere as moody and its result as thrilling.

Drawn from www.publishersweekly.com.

How it stays unspoiled

Nothing past your page exists.

The companion is assembled from the passages you have read and only those. A character who knows the ending is no one worth talking to, so there is no override — not behind a setting, not behind a confirmation. Your position is the wall.

You are here

Get the book

One ebook. Yours.

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Buy the ebook once, read it in Green Room — or in any reader you already use.

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