A Covenant of Stone and Soul

Six years ago Clara Tremaine walked out of Iron and Ivy and made herself nobody's heir. A rented room. Three pupils. A name with no house attached to it. Now the estate is coming apart, and it will not stop at the gate. The wards were built for two, and there is one man whose magic still answers hers.

Jack Pendelton has spent those six years on the Cornwall coast, in a cottage she has never seen. He agrees to come back on one condition: they hold the house, then she goes, and this time she stays gone. What the house asks in return is not the estate. It is not their lives either. It is everything on the other side of the gate, for as long as they both live.

Jack has known for three years. He never wrote it down for her.

What you're in for

• A gothic estate with wards that were never meant to be held by one person
• A second-chance romance where the price of staying together is the whole point
• Book 1 of The Keystone Saga
• Explicit content in select chapters

She came to save the house and leave. Now she has to decide what she can stand to never see again.