M.S. DONOVAN
The Rosarium: The Klipa Veil
Debut Novel
M.S. Donovan is a writer of literary horror and poetry from the North Shore of Long Island. Her work explores the ways power hides inside family, and what gets called madness when no one wants to look closer.
Her debut novel, The Rosarium: The Klipa Veil, is a generational horror about women whose perception, creativity, and bodies are extracted through a spiritual-economic system—and what it costs to reclaim that inheritance. The manuscript was developed with World Fantasy Award-winning editor Paula Guran and received a craft-level edit from Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief Brett Savory of ChiZine Publications.
She currently resides in New York with her family.
You come from women who taught themselves forgetting.
You are not the author. You are the archive.
On Long Island's Gold Coast, Sabine Kent-Rhodes is raising her twin sons in a cottage on her husband's ancestral estate. Writing a memoir to steady her unraveling life, she begins to notice disturbances gathering at the edges of the ordinary. When one boy develops violent, unexplained fevers and the other begins speaking about things he cannot possibly know, Sabine begins to suspect the illness is inherited.
After their grandmother's funeral, Sabine and her sisters uncover journals linking their maternal bloodline to a fraternal order that stripped the women of a sacred perceptual gift, redirecting that inheritance for their own wealth and influence. What the family long dismissed as instability was soul-level fracture—generations of women rendered vessels for a system that feeds on them.
In Sabine's twins, the binding reckons with more than it was designed to contain.
Every woman who had ever been taken from themselves singing herself home.
The novel unfolds across dual timelines, 1943 and 2025, between the ritual that began it and the women who confront it.
Violation and revelation arriving through the same door.
