Blackthorn House never lets go. Neither does he.
Nell Ashby expects to spend two weeks in a crumbling Maine estate, settle her great-aunt’s affairs, and go back to her quiet life in Boston.
Instead, she inherits a house perched above a fog-bound harbour, an impossible archive hidden in the east wing, and a caretaker who has been guarding both for far longer than any man should be alive.
Callum Vane is polite, secretive, and impossible to ignore. The archive itself seems to want Nell there. Books move when no one is watching. A journal writes new entries overnight in seventeenth-century ink. And as Nell digs deeper, she discovers the records of another woman who came to the house centuries earlier—and got far too close to the same dangerous man.
The more Nell uncovers, the harder it becomes to separate scholarship from obsession, history from desire, and the past from what is happening between her and Callum now.
Because the archive remembers everything.
And it may have been waiting for Nell all along.
Trope list:
- gothic paranormal romance
- vampire caretaker / immortal love interest
- haunted house vibes
- mysterious inheritance
- hidden magical archive
- forced proximity
- small coastal town
- slow burn romance
- forbidden / dangerous attraction
- scholar x immortal
- secrets from the past
- dual timeline / parallel love story
- reincarnated echoes / history repeating
- emotionally guarded hero
- competent heroine
- “the house chose her” energy
- obsessive research
- mutual yearning
- atmospheric mystery
