Gothic Paranormal Romance
Margaux Craven
Where old houses keep old secrets and love never truly dies
The Wychwood Manor series follows one woman's descent into a love story that spans the veil between living and dead. Margaux Craven writes gothic paranormal romance where crumbling estates hold secrets in their walls, where the line between haunting and desire blurs with every whispered word, and where surrender to the darkness might be the only way to survive it. Her heroines don't run from ghosts—they fall for them. Her manors are characters unto themselves, breathing with memory and longing. These aren't ghost stories with romance. They're love stories where death is just the beginning.
Books by Margaux Craven
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Wychwood Manor
The Arrival: Wychwood Manor Book One
She came to catalog the estate. She stayed for him. When librarian Eliza Marchetti accepts a position cataloging the rare book collection at Wychwood Manor, she expects dust, silence, and solitude. What she doesn't expect is the figure watching from the shadows—or the way her heart races when she glimpses him in mirrors, in doorways, in the space between one breath and the next. Lord Sebastian Wychwood has been bound to his ancestral home for two centuries, a ghost trapped between worlds by a curse he can barely remember. He's watched countless caretakers come and go without a flicker of interest. But something about Eliza calls to him—her curiosity, her fearlessness, the way she speaks to him like he's still alive. As Eliza uncovers the manor's secrets, she finds herself falling for a man she can never truly touch. And Sebastian discovers that some prisons have doors that only open from the inside—if he can find the courage to walk through.
The Staying: Wychwood Manor Book Two
She chose to stay. Now she must learn what that means. Eliza made her choice—Wychwood Manor, and the ghost who haunts it, are her home now. But staying with Sebastian means understanding the curse that binds him, and the more she learns, the darker the truth becomes. The Wychwood family didn't just dabble in the occult. They built their fortune on it, and someone paid the price. As Eliza delves deeper into the manor's history, she attracts the attention of forces that have waited centuries for someone foolish enough to look too closely. The house itself seems to shift around her, rooms appearing that shouldn't exist, whispers echoing from walls that weren't there yesterday. And Sebastian—her Sebastian—is changing too, becoming more solid, more present, more desperate in ways that thrill and terrify her. The curse that keeps him here is weakening. But what rises when the chains finally break?
The Surrender: Wychwood Manor Book Three
Some love stories end with death. Theirs begins there. The curse is broken. Sebastian walks among the living for the first time in two hundred years. But freedom comes with a price Eliza never anticipated—because the man who emerged from the shadows isn't quite the ghost she fell in love with, and the darkness that held him has to go somewhere. Now Eliza must choose: the gentle spirit she loved, or the dangerous man he's becoming. The manor offers her a third option—a way to bind them together for eternity, living and dead, flesh and shadow, in a surrender more complete than either of them imagined. In the final chapter of the Wychwood Manor trilogy, love and death become the same thing, and the only way forward is through the darkness together.
Stormcrest
The Shore: Stormcrest Book One
The sea took everything from her. Now it's offering something back. When Maren Ashford inherits a crumbling cottage on the storm-battered coast of Maine, she expects solitude, grief, and perhaps closure after her sister's drowning. What she doesn't expect is him—the man who appears during storms, who watches her from the cliffs, whose eyes hold the same cold fury as the sea itself. Locals whisper about the drowned ones, spirits of those the ocean claimed who return when tempests call. They say the shore is haunted. They say anyone who stays too long loses themselves to the tide. But Maren feels something else in the salt wind: recognition. Longing. A pull toward the water that grows stronger every night. The first book in the Stormcrest trilogy explores the thin boundary between grief and desire, between drowning and surrender.
The Storm: Stormcrest Book Two
She's learning to breathe underwater. He's learning to breathe at all. Maren now knows what Caelan is—a revenant of the deep, bound to the sea that claimed him decades ago. Their love should be impossible, a living woman and a drowned man, warmth and cold, breath and stillness. But in the storms that rage between worlds, they've found something that defies the laws of both. When an ancient power stirs in the depths, demanding tribute the coast hasn't paid in generations, Maren realizes her connection to the sea runs deeper than love. She's part of an old bargain, a bloodline promise, and the storm is coming to collect. The second book in the Stormcrest trilogy plunges deeper into dark waters where love and sacrifice become indistinguishable.
The Drowning: Stormcrest Book Three
Some love stories end with happily ever after. Theirs ends with the tide. The old god of the deep has awakened, and it wants what it was promised—a daughter of the shore to rule beside it in the cold dark beneath the waves. Maren always knew her love for Caelan would demand everything. She just didn't know 'everything' meant becoming something other than human. As the final storm approaches, Maren must choose: remain on the shore and watch the sea claim everyone she loves, or embrace the drowning and become the queen of something vast and terrible and eternal. Caelan offers her a third option—but it will cost him everything he is. The stunning conclusion to the Stormcrest trilogy, where the only way to survive the deep is to surrender to it completely.