The Books

The Hollow Tide Cryptid Cove series

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

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.

Saltwick, Book One cover

Saltwick

Book One · coming August 1, 2026

When Wren Calloway inherits her aunt’s Queen Anne B&B, she has six months 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.

Cape Herring, Book Two cover

Cape Herring

Book Two · coming September 19, 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 · coming November 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.