An Immaculate Deception by Isabella Livino

A Pregnancy Trapped Behind Gothic Walls

An Immaculate Deception is a gothic horror debut set in 1870s Brazil, where a young pregnant woman becomes isolated inside her lover’s family home. The house is not merely remote; it belongs to a family whose security rests on a bargain that should never have been made.

The Devil Comes to Collect

That bargain with the devil goes catastrophically wrong, turning a vulnerable domestic situation into something far more dangerous. Pregnancy, dependence, and the power of an established family all tighten the trap before the supernatural consequences even arrive.

The premise gives classic gothic ingredients a pointed shape: a secluded estate, a woman with limited freedom, inherited wrongdoing, and a household determined by secrets made before she entered it. The horror lies in discovering what the family promised—and what their lover’s guest and unborn child might now be expected to pay.

Brazil Gives the Gothic a Different Shadow

By placing its haunted family drama in nineteenth-century Brazil, Isabella Livino moves the gothic away from its most familiar European estates. The setting brings its own histories of class, faith, family authority, and exploitation to a story already built around captivity and an infernal debt.

An Immaculate Deception arrives September 1, opening the fall with a compact premise designed for readers who like their haunted houses morally compromised before the first door closes.