Long Habit of Being Alone

Lucian Ashworth has spent seventeen centuries learning how not to be known.

His private museum in Bath is meticulously ordered. Every object has a place. Every acquisition has a record. Every story has been preserved with care.

Except his own.

When Rowan Sutcliffe joins the museum as a curatorial assistant, she notices the things other people miss. A Romano-British fibula with an incomplete provenance. Handwriting that appears in records centuries apart. Gaps in a collection where there should be none.

And Lucian.

The more Rowan uncovers, the harder it becomes for him to maintain the careful distance that has kept him safe for centuries. But some secrets are dangerous, and Lucian belongs to a world with rules about what humans are allowed to know.

As Rowan is drawn deeper into his history, both of them must decide whether being known is worth the risk of being lost.

A slow-burn supernatural romance about memory, immortality, hidden histories, and the courage it takes to let someone see the whole truth.