The Rum Runner: The Legend of Captain John Stewart

By: Kennedy, Doralynn

A house that eats people, the immortal captain who built it, and a love that refuses to die.

When Case Pharmaceuticals investigator Caroline Oliver arrives at a decaying mansion on the Maine coast just as a hurricane closes in, she expects corporate secrets tied to rumors of eternal life. Instead, she finds a house that is alive... and a man who should not exist.

She came to steal his secrets. He stole her heart.

Edward Kelly is a billionaire of impossible age and rumored to be the long-dead Prohibition-era smuggler, Captain John Stewart. Haunted by a century-old curse, Stewart has spent decades hiding from a past that refuses to stay buried.

A hundred years earlier, along the same storm-lashed coast, a private nurse named Ruth Wilson stepped into a world of passion, smugglers, and secrets, and fell in love with a man the sea refused to drown.

Now the house they built together remembers everything.

As Caroline learns the truth of that past, she awakens something vengeful within the house's walls: something bound to betrayal, desire, and the cost of immortality. With a ruthless pharmaceutical company closing in, she and Edward must confront the past, the house, and a force born in dangerous waters.

Because some storms do not end with the water. Some follow a man ashore and wait for him in the dark.

And some loves refuse to die.

The Cliff House Trilogy is a gothic romance with strong horror and fantasy elements that blends dual timelines, supernatural mystery, and an enduring love spanning more than a century.

This omnibus edition includes all three novels, presenting the complete story of a haunted house, a generational curse, and a love that may be the only force powerful enough to break it.

Perfect for readers of:

Rebecca
The Haunting of Hill House
Outlander (early books)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJK6BHGF
• ISBN13: 9798215186282
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Doralynn Kennedy
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"