The Chapel Below Tide
When the drowned chapel bells ring at noon, Cassian Vale starts paying an old debt in pain, blood, and salt. He has survived fifteen years as Blackwater's revenant keeper, bound to the tide by a bargain he refuses to name. Isolde Marr has spent those same years learning not to trust haunted houses, dead mothers, or any desire that asks to own her. But when Cassian collapses under the bell-call, she drags him beneath the manor and into the chapel the sea keeps trying to swallow. There, in a storm-locked sanctuary of wet stone, occult ledgers, and rising water, Isolde finds the third vow in her mother's hand: her life was bought with Cassian's afterdeath. Now the house wants the old bargain fulfilled. Cassian wants Isolde safe, even if it means remaining a beautiful ruin in chains. Isolde wants the whole truth, not protection built from lies. And the drowned chapel answers only to truthful desire. As the storm closes in, rescue becomes confession, suspicion becomes hunger, and the man Isolde was warned not to touch becomes the only one she trusts to hear her no, her yes, and everything in between. To free him, they will have to descend into grief, blood, and the vow that made them. To keep each other, they must decide whether love can rewrite a contract sealed by death. Dark, sensual, and storm-lashed, The Chapel Below Tide is a gothic paranormal erotic romance featuring a haunted coastal manor, a revenant tide witch, explicit consensual intimacy, occult ritual, and a hard-won HFN. Free sample available.