Keeper of Blackwood: A Haunted Estate. A Buried Secret. A Dangerous Keeper. - A Gothic Dark-Romance

The atmospheric gothic dark-romance mystery readers can't stop talking about - now in paperback.
A Gothic Dark-Romance Mystery - Book One of The Blackwood Mysteries.

When restoration architect Evelyn Hart opens a letter from the mentor she has just buried, it carries one instruction: go to Blackwood, and tell me what the house is doing. What waits on the storm-battered cliff is a Gothic manor performing its own ruin - staged decay laid over bones that someone has kept expensively, secretly alive.

The house is not empty. It has a Keeper - guarded, grieving, and bound to a place whose deepest room opens only for two hands at once. As Evelyn learns to read Blackwood the way other people read a face, she uncovers a hidden network, a chamber full of names, and a truth the powerful have killed to keep buried.

The closer she comes to the secret in the cedar-paneled dark, the closer she comes to a man she was never supposed to trust - and to a choice that will cost her everything she was sent to protect. Blackwood has been waiting a long time for someone who could finally read it.

One wrong reading, one misplaced word of trust, and a hundred and fifty years of secrets go into the sea with her. Blackwood keeps what it takes - and the last conservator who came to save its papers was never seen leaving.

A slow-burn gothic dark-romance mystery for readers who love:

• A slow-burn, forbidden gothic romance
• A brooding, guarded hero with a deadly secret
• An atmospheric clifftop manor full of hidden rooms and locked doors
• A dead-mentor mystery and a letter from beyond the grave
• Found family and a secret network of the hunted
• Morally grey guardians and ruthless, powerful enemies
• A clever, underestimated heroine who reads buildings like faces
• Twist-filled gothic suspense and buried family secrets

• A storm-lashed estate on a fog-bound New England coast
• A chamber of names two centuries of power have killed to protect
• A restoration architect who solves mysteries in wax, ink, and stone
• A Keeper who will burn everything he was raised to inherit
• The first secret of a sweeping five-book gothic saga

A slow-burn gothic mystery series to collect and keep, with a gothic vibe and buried secrets that linger long after the last page.

The Blackwood Mysteries - the complete gothic series
Five estates. Five secrets. One restoration architect who reads the truth in the walls. The Blackwood Mysteries is a complete five-book gothic dark-romance mystery series - a slow-burn, atmospheric saga of haunted houses, hidden networks, morally grey guardians, and buried family secrets, where every estate opens a new danger and every book deepens the romance.

• Book 1 - The Keeper of Blackwood: a dead woman's summons to a clifftop manor built to hide the hunted.
• Book 2 - The Keeper of Ravenshollow: an archive-house on the moors where the betrayal comes from within.
• Book 3 - The Keeper of Thornmere: a refuge on a forest island that has quietly become a prison.
• Book 4 - The Keeper of Ashcroft: the Order trades force for the law inside a floodlit golden palace.
• Book 5 - The Last Keeper: the whole network returns to Blackwood for the final door and the last secret.