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Gothic Romance / Historical Mystery
Ailsa Crowe
Gothic Romance
Ailsa Crowe
The solicitor had said Blackthorn House would be difficult to miss. Mara Quinn thought that was the sort of thing men said when they had never arrived anywhere in a hire car during hard rain with a cracked phone screen, a dying battery, and the sick certainty that the past had been sitting upright all these years, waiting for her to come back and look it in the face.
Gothic Romance
Ailsa Crowe
The Summons The letter arrived at 6:17 on a Thursday evening, when Dr Eve Harkin was standing barefoot on her kitchen tile with a mug of cold tea in one hand and a police transcript in the other. She noticed the envelope before she noticed the knock. Cream paper. Heavy. Her name written in black ink by a hand that had either been trained in convent cruelty or old money.
Psychological Horror
Lachlan Ashen
Independent investigator Mara Vale is publicly discredited at a national integrity hearing when impossible ash, a sealed childhood institution called Ash House, and the voice of her missing brother force her back toward the family secrets and official records she has spent her career exposing.
Civic Cozy Mystery
Orla Ashdown
Councillor and part-time actress Imogen Vale discovers the official minutes say she cast the deciding vote to demolish St Brigid's Court—the estate where her sister lives—even though the same record marks her absent and she was performing miles away. A mysterious notation points to an obsolete spousal-proxy rule and drags her estranged husband, county archivist Daniel, into a civic mystery about forged procedure, altered records and who has the power to make a false decision become official truth.
Gothic Romance
Ailsa Crowe
Some legacies should stay buried. Some loves refuse to. The Ghost at Ravensmere opens the gates to a moonlit coastal estate where inheritance, desire and dangerous truths refuse to remain politely in the past. Ailsa Crowe blends gothic atmosphere, haunted family history and romance into a story where the house remembers more than its living occupants are prepared to admit.