In the crumbling corridors of 1466 Dumaine Street, memory lingers like blood and jasmine-and love returns in a form both haunted and heartbreakingly human. Celeste Duval never meant to come back. But a letter soaked in salt and scent calls her home to the family estate she was told to forget. Inside its decaying walls, something stirs: footsteps behind mirrors, whispers in the garden, and a man with ice-gray eyes who defies time itself. Julien Moreau is a symphony of dust and desire-a man unraveling across lifetimes. Once lost. Still in love. He remembers Celeste differently, in fragments from another name, another era. As the house begins to resurrect its past, Celeste must decide: is she here to forgive him, or to end what once began in fire? Celeste is a gothic love story of second chances across centuries, memory and identity, ancestral grief, and the intimacy of choosing someone-again and again. With lyrical prose and a lush Southern atmosphere, it blends themes of forbidden love, tragic connection, and a house that remembers everything. "Confession implies guilt," he said. "What I carry isn't guilt. It's architecture.""I was 112 years old. A collection of faded glances, forgotten reflections, and dusted footsteps. But today-I am 28 again. Because of you.""You, who touched what time left behind and did not turn away." For readers who crave haunted romance, slow-burn tension, Southern gothic mystery, and tender stories sharpened by longing, Celeste is a deeply emotional descent into legacy, desire, and the echoes of love that never truly die. There are multiple versions and cover variations for this title

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