The Girl Who Died Twice

Mizuki Aoyama had one regret: she never got to eat the cream puff. She dies on a train platform in the rain, phone buzzing unanswered in her bag - and wakes up somewhere else entirely. A château out of a Renaissance painting. A body that isn’t hers. A household that calls her Mademoiselle Élise and flinches when she enters a room.Élise de Montreuil was buried in March. She returned in April, cold and changed and full of questions no one would answer. In September, she died again - and Mizuki opened her eyes in the same bed three days later, wearing Élise’s face, speaking a language she’s never learned, with no idea how to be the girl everyone needs her to be.Something in Château Montreuil remembers every soul who has ever died beneath its roof. Something has been watching the family for three hundred years, waiting at the thin place between the living and the dead. And someone inside the house already killed Élise once to keep her from finding out what it wants.Mizuki isn’t a chosen one. She has no sword, no magic, no memorized system menu. She has a scarred left hand that isn’t quite hers, a brother who may be sworn to end her life the moment she stops seeming human, and a houseful of secrets with her name - both of her names - written all through them.She just has to survive long enough to learn the truth.The House of Black Roses is Book One of THE GIRL WHO DIED TWICE, a Gothic isekai fantasy of ancestral secrets, slow-burn romance, and a door between worlds that should never have been opened.