The Books

The Hollow Tide Cryptid Cove series

Interconnected standalone cozy paranormal romances. Read them in order, or wander in anywhere.

A new book on the first of every month.

Saltwick, Book One cover

Saltwick

Book One · out now

When Wren Calloway inherits her aunt’s Queen Anne B&B, she has six weeks to renovate it, reopen it, and outrun Portland. What she does not have is a contractor. Ewan Macrae, lake kraken and three years a widower, arrives at seven a.m. with a binder.

Free to read in Kindle Unlimited, or $3.99 to buy. Paperback available.

Cape Herring, Book Two cover

Cape Herring

Book Two · September 1, 2026

Naia Orris has kept the Cape Herring light alone for nine years and let no one stay. Jonas Marrit arrives for one research season with a notebook, a folklorist’s patience, and no idea he is the thing she has been guarding against.

Saltkettle, Book Three cover

Saltkettle

Book Three · October 1, 2026

Greer Vance came home to the only job left and the one fear she never outran: that the town would quietly keep her. Callum Brine, selkie and oyster farmer, made himself unleavable on purpose. When the town pairs them off to save the bay, neither expects to learn the difference between being chosen and being caught.

Bellwether, Book Four cover

Bellwether

Book Four · November 1, 2026

Margot Calder photographs other people’s weddings for a living and keeps her gas tank above half, so leaving is always a decision and never a scramble. The cottage she rents belongs to Asa Holt: centaur, cartwright and haulier, raising his sister’s daughter, and certain that wanting something for himself is a load he has no right to set down.

First Watch cover

First Watch

A Hollow Tide Cryptid Cove Novella · free

The origin of Cape Herring’s keeper, set nine years before Book Two. A gentle companion piece, best read after Cape Herring, and the free way into the world.

More to come

The series runs to ten interconnected standalones. Book Five arrives in December 2026. Join the list and each one lands in your inbox the day it goes live.