Weavingshaw

What would you trade for your darkest secret?
A merchant who deals in confessions, the Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered to him. The worse the secret, the higher the price. The needy flock to him to whisper their shameful confidences, but return shadows of their former selves. Rumours swirl that he can taste lies-and he is brutal with those who dare tell him one.
Leena has a secret: she can see the dead. They have haunted her since she was seventeen, but she keeps that part of herself hidden. Until her brother falls ill and she cannot afford the medication to save him. Desperate, she seeks the Saint.
A mistake.
Unbeknownst to Leena, the Saint of Silence is also seeking someone-a dead nobleman. In order to save her brother, Leena must sign a deal with him: work for St. Silas to find the ghost he searches for.
Soon, their journey takes them to Weavingshaw, a haunting estate on the moors that seems both alive and cursed. There, they realize that they are being hunted by a mysterious group of aristos known only as the Wake, who will stop at nothing to unearth the ghost's secret first.
As Leena grows closer to St. Silas, as she is plunged further into his world of danger and deceit and desire, she learns that he is hiding his own secrets-ones that have the power to destroy them all.

Heba Al-Wasity was inspired to write by her own experiences of being born an Iraqi-refugee in Libya, growing up in Canada, and attending medical school in the UK.
As a junior doctor, she has worked in emergency care and several psychiatric inpatient units, allowing her to gain first-hand insight in the ways that poverty and deprivation can lead to social inequalities. She is based in Greater Manchester.