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.