The Bride Beneath Blackwater House – Paperback

Her missing sister has finally sent a message. The warning is about a man Mara has never met.

Eleven months after Tessa vanished, investigator Mara Venn receives a voicemail in her sister’s voice-and a photograph taken outside Mara’s office that morning. Behind her stands a stranger who should not be there.

The trail leads back to Blackwater House, a cliffside estate above a Cornish harbour. Its upstairs windows look onto impossible depths. Water climbs its stairs against the falling tide. And Elias Rook, the man in the photograph, knows more about Tessa’s disappearance than he is willing to admit.

Elias has warm hands, a dangerous secret and no reflection. He can lead Mara into the rooms beneath the house. But something down there borrows familiar voices, and not everyone who comes back is the person who went missing.

As suspicion gives way to a desire neither of them expected, Mara must decide what makes a person real-and whether she can trust a man whose survival is bound to the place that took her sister.

Because Blackwater House does not only want to be entered.

It wants to be invited out.

The Bride Beneath Blackwater House begins Salt & Shadows, an adult coastal gothic horror-romance series. A complete central love story with a happily-ever-after, explicit consensual intimacy, a haunted-house mystery and a dangerous supernatural hero.