Part of Whimbrel House
First published 2025
Owein has problems stacking up faster than he can solve them. He has signed a marriage contract with Lady Cora, a powerful noblewoman living across the Atlantic, while a shape-shifting druid named Fallon keeps showing up and making everything more complicated. At Whimbrel House on Blaugdone Island, Merritt and Hulda are building a family, and life feels almost settled. Then Silas Hogwood walks back into the world. The greatest wizard of the millennium spent five years dead, but now he has a new body and the same appetite for madness and revenge. Owein knows he cannot stop Silas alone. He reaches out to Cora for help, and the threat grows loud enough that Queen Victoria herself responds, sending her League of Magicians and a personal necromancer across the ocean. As forces converge on Blaugdone Island, Owein learns that surviving this will mean digging up secrets Hulda has deliberately buried. She does not want him to have them. He is going to take them anyway. Protecting the people inside Whimbrel House matters more than any promise or locked door, and Owein has already died twice before.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, supernatural, adult-fiction, dark-fantasy, historical-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, mysterious, suspenseful
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, resurrection, secrets-revealed
Setting: Blaugdone Island, Whimbrel House, Atlantic
Period: 19th-century, Victorian era
254 pages · Kindle Edition · 47North
Content warnings: death, violence