Some covenants are signed in ink. This one is signed in tide.
When Maren arrives at Dunmore House - debt-bound, cornered, and out of options - she expects a transaction. A marriage of convenience to a stranger on a headland above the Atlantic. Nothing more.
She doesn't expect Cailean M r.
She doesn't expect the thing that lives beneath the harbor.
And she doesn't expect to find, buried in the founding documents of a four-hundred-year-old covenant she never agreed to, that the choice she thought had been made for her was hers all along - and the new moon is nineteen days away.
Bride of the Black Tide is a slow-burn dark gothic romance set on the wild Irish coast, where the line between possession and protection runs as deep as the ocean floor. Perfect for readers who want:
Atmospheric coastal gothic with genuine supernatural dread
A brooding, controlled hero whose twelve years of solitude have left marks - literal ones
A heroine who arrives afraid and leaves on her own terms
Ancient covenants, tidal magic, and a love story built in the space between the pull and the release
The sea has always taken what it wanted. This time, she chose to give it.
Content advisory: morally complex supernatural elements, obsessive protective hero, dark themes, sensual tension. HEA guaranteed.