Nyden is a drifter with a curse: he feels what other people feel. Emotions bleed into him whether he wants them to or not. After years of running from crowds and connection, a cash-paying handyman job in a quiet California town seems like the perfect escape.

The house is perfect. The roses are perfect. The family that lives there is warm, welcoming, and just a little too friendly. But something is deeply wrong.

Behind their smiles, the Rohrer family feeds on human emotion ? joy, grief, desire, fear ? harvesting it at weddings, wakes, and birthday parties. They are psychic vampires, and Nyden is the one thing they've never encountered before: a man they cannot read.

As Nyden realizes the horrifying truth about the town and the thing that lives beneath the house, he must decide whether to run once again... or finally use his curse to fight back.

The Eternal Rose is a chilling psychological horror novel about hunger, loneliness, and the monsters who hide behind the most ordinary faces.