The House Beyond the Mist

By: McGuire, Erin

A house built on secrets. A marriage tested by silence. A love story the past refuses to forget.

When Elizabeth Harcourt unexpectedly inherits Blackthorn Manor on Ireland's mist-shrouded western coast, the gift comes with an unusual condition: she must live there for one year before the estate is truly hers.

For Elizabeth and her husband, Richard, the move offers something they desperately need-a chance to repair the quiet distance that has grown between them.

But Blackthorn has been waiting.

A woman in white appears beneath their window. Music drifts from an abandoned ballroom. Forgotten letters emerge from hiding places within the manor. And behind the walls, Elizabeth and Richard discover a century-old portrait of two lovers whose resemblance to them is impossible to ignore.

Carved into the back are four unsettling words:

YOU CAME BACK.

The portrait leads them to Eliza Vale and Rowan Blackthorn, two lovers separated more than a century earlier by betrayal, buried secrets, and a truth someone was determined to erase.

As Elizabeth searches for what really happened, Blackthorn begins revealing its past piece by piece-from sealed rooms and forged letters to a hidden passage beneath the cliffs.

But the deeper Elizabeth and Richard venture into Blackthorn's history, the more its old wounds begin to echo their own.

To give the dead their truth, they must uncover what happened at Blackthorn.

To save their marriage, they must confront the secrets between themselves.

And before the mist finally lifts, Elizabeth must decide whether love is something written by the past...

or chosen, again and again, by the living.

The House Beyond the Mist is an atmospheric gothic historical romance filled with haunting secrets, emotional mystery, second chances, and a marriage worth fighting for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HL8M4JJ2
• ISBN13: 9798177419022
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"