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One coast. One family. One sea that keeps the accounts. The Caerhavens of Cornwall — a candlelit gothic saga in three books, and the first door already stands open.

Series · Books I–III

The Caerhavens of Cornwall

The sea takes everything. The family keeps the receipts.

A keep on the Cornish cliffs, the line that held it, and the sea that has been collecting on the debt for generations. Three books, three weathers, one lit window that will not go out. Gothic in every bone of its body.

The Last Countess of Caerhaven — Book I of The Caerhavens of Cornwall
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The Last Countess of Caerhaven

"Four governesses have fled Caerhaven Keep. The fifth has nowhere left to run."

Disgraced and out of options, Sophie Lane takes the only post a woman with her past can get: governess at a half-ruined keep on the Cornish cliffs, where four governesses have fled in three years and the last Countess walked into the sea. The earl is courteous and cold. His daughter has not spoken since her mother drowned. And something in the house weeps through the floor at three in the morning.

A candlelit Gothic with a real mystery breathing under the dread. For readers of Rebecca, The Turn of the Screw, and Susanna Kearsley — and every ghost story told at Christmas by people who should know better.

EraRegency · 1824
GenreGothic Romance
Pages270
SeriesCaerhavens of Cornwall · I of III
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The Mistress of Mountsorrel

"Twenty years on, a daughter with her mother's face comes home to Cornwall."

Effie Caerhaven has counted seabirds on three coastlines and outargued scholars in two languages, and none of it sounds like home. She returns to a cove she remembers only in fragments — where Mountsorrel, the house across the water, stands restored, courteous, and lit at one window.

A suitor follows her down from Devon with a question. A locked drawer has waited twenty years for a hand that dares it. And the house her mother could never speak of has kept every page of the story Effie was never told.

EraEarly Victorian · 1841
GenreGothic Romantic Suspense
StatusIn the writing
SeriesCaerhavens of Cornwall · II of III
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The Mistress of Mountsorrel — Book II of The Caerhavens of Cornwall
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The Earl of Caerhaven — Book III of The Caerhavens of Cornwall
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The Earl of Caerhaven

"An earl of drowned ground comes home to nothing — and begins to draw."

Tristan Caerhaven inherits a name out of the legends, a stretch of open water, and a headland of scattered stones where a keep once dared the sea. He has sketched it from every rock since he was a boy. Now the drawings are plans.

But Cornwall remembers the Caerhavens, and not all of what it remembers is kind. Some ground stays bought at a price no ledger survived — and the sea has never once returned a thing it was owed.

EraVictorian
GenreGothic Romance
StatusIn the planning
SeriesCaerhavens of Cornwall · III of III
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Where to Start

A candle and a map.

I
Begin at the keep

Start with The Last Countess of Caerhaven. Standalone-complete, candlelit, entirely a trap. Out now.

II
Then cross the cove

The Mistress of Mountsorrel picks up the story a generation on. Subscribe and you'll know the moment the door opens.

III
And come back to the headland

The Earl of Caerhaven ends where the family began — on bare ground above the sea. The sea spoils nothing willingly.