Master of Salt & Bones

Master of Salt & Bones is a standalone dark gothic romance set in Tempest Cove, a small town steeped in superstition. Isadora, already an outcast because of local rumor and her own troubled past, takes a live-in position at Blackthorne Manor as a companion to the ailing mother of Lucian Blackthorne.

Lucian is feared and avoided by the town, hiding away in a manor that looms over Tempest Cove like a modern-day castle. As Isa settles into the household, she is drawn deeper into the manor's secrets and into Lucian's orbit — a man shaped by heartbreak, loneliness, and a fate the town refuses to speak of directly. Both of them, individually and together, draw the attention of predatory outside forces, and the story builds toward a series of dark twists as Isa uncovers what Blackthorne Manor and its master are really hiding.

The novel is a tortured-hero dark romance with gothic trappings — an isolated estate, a feared master, and a heroine who has nowhere else to go.