The Library of Raven Rose

Elena Vance restores what other people give up on. So when a crumbling Gothic manor in the Pacific Northwest lands in her inheritance, she sees the work of a lifetime — until Cassian Thorne appears with a lawyer, a claim, and the insufferable confidence of a man who has never lost anything.

The court won’t award it. Not yet. Until then they’re ordered to restore it together: two people who cannot agree on a doorknob, alone in a house with one habitable room and a storm rolling in off the water.

Every argument has an edge. Every truce has a price. And the longer they work, the harder it gets to remember which one of them is supposed to win.

A standalone enemies-to-lovers romance. No cliffhanger.

The worst drought in a century has emptied Ardenmere Reservoir, and the village drowned beneath it sixty years ago is standing in the sun again.

Marin Hale is the surveyor hired to document what the water gave back before it takes it a second time. Silas Rourke is the engineer whose family was driven out of that valley, and who has spent his life certain the official story is a lie. She has the authority and the instruments. He knows where every building stood. Neither of them wants a partner, and the water authority has just made them one.

Then the deeds start disagreeing with each other. Signatures in the same hand. Dates that cannot be true. A man named Ward Lachlan who never sold, never left, and never appears in a single record after March 1966.

They have one dry season to prove what happened here. When the rain comes back, the valley closes over it for good — and what they find in the parish hall cellar will cost them both more than the truth is supposed to.

A standalone gothic romance. Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, explicit content, and a happily ever after. No cliffhanger.