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Scottish BookAuthor: Sarah Maine
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A haunting, dual-timeline gothic mystery on a remote Scottish island estate — when a woman inherits a crumbling ancestral house she uncovers century-old secrets and buried remains. Perfect for readers who love moody historical fiction steeped in atmosphere and mystery.
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Thoughtful and beautifully grounded in its setting, The House Between Tides is a story about what endures when people are gone, and how the past waits patiently to be uncovered.
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When the last of her family dies, Hetty Deveraux leaves London behind and travels north to Muirlan, the ruined Scottish house that once anchored her childhood stories. The estate sits exposed to wind and tide, its walls failing, its presence uneasy. What was meant to be a brief settling of affairs becomes something slower and more consuming as Hetty commits herself to restoring the place.
As work begins, the house resists being reduced to timber and stone. Fragments surface, a hidden room, an omission in the family record, a silence that feels carefully kept. The local villagers offer little beyond rumours and half truths, and Hetty senses that Muirlan has been guarding its secret for a century with purpose.
The House Between Tides is steeped in landscape and atmosphere, where the sea shapes both memory and loss. It is a novel about inheritance and belonging, and the way the past presses quietly but insistently on the present, asking to be acknowledged before it can be laid to rest.
Crime & Mystery
Crime & Mystery
Crime & Mystery