Part of Whimbrel House
First published 2023
Merritt Fernsby inherited Whimbrel House, a remote estate on Narragansett Bay, without asking for any of it. The house came with chaos baked into its walls, and house tamer Hulda Larkin came with it to manage that chaos. Now the mischief has quieted. Hulda's work, by most measures, is finished. That's the problem. Merritt is only beginning to understand that his connection to the house runs deeper than ownership. He carries magical lineage he hasn't fully traced, and the calm that Hulda's presence helped create is now forcing him to reckon with what he actually is. With her professional reason for staying gone, the question of who belongs at Whimbrel House gets complicated fast. This second entry in the Whimbrel House series follows Merritt as he digs into his enchanted heritage while the person who helped him find stability may no longer have a reason to stay. The emotional weight sits in that gap between finally feeling at home somewhere and not yet knowing what you're capable of.
Genres: fiction, romance, fantasy, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate, introspective, slow-burn
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, self-discovery, slow-burn-romance
Setting: Whimbrel House, Narragansett Bay
Period: 19th-century
300 pages · Kindle Edition · 47North