Begars Abbey – Gothic story set in a Yorkshire Abbey (Hardback)

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In the winter of 1954, Sam Cooper is alone in Brooklyn, newly bereaved and close to losing her home. Sorting through her mother’s belongings, she uncovers a cache of letters that point to an inheritance she was never told about, and to Begars Abbey, a decaying estate in Yorkshire she has never seen.

The abbey is cold, vast, and almost empty. Sam’s grandmother, Lady Cooper, is confined by illness and unable to speak. The servants offer little warmth or explanation. Through her mother’s diaries, Sam begins to glimpse a childhood marked by fear and silence, and to sense that the past has been deliberately buried.

Built on the remains of an old convent, Begars Abbey feels alive with wind and sound. Shadows move where they should not. Tunnels run beneath the house, holding histories that resist discovery. As Sam searches for answers, the line between inheritance and imprisonment begins to blur.

Begars Abbey is a gothic novel of secrecy and dread, where family history presses close and the house itself refuses to let go.