On A Northern Shore: A modern Gothic love story steeped in Celtic mythology (Paperback)

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Hogmanay in the far north of Scotland, where the sea is cold, the nights are long and the dead are said to linger close. On the shoreline, lobster fisherman Rob Sinclair pours a dram into the North Sea, an old family offering to the Selkie, the spirit believed to rule these waters. Rob is solitary, bruised by life and bound to the rhythms of the tide.

That same night, a stranger arrives in the village. Mairi is young, watchful and driven by a promise made to her dying mother. She has come north to carry out three acts of revenge, punishment for wrongs committed long before she was born.

Rob and Mairi are drawn together by shared loneliness, but Mairi remains elusive, her nature shifting and uncertain. Rob is captivated, unsettled, and slowly realises that nothing about her is straightforward. The only thing he knows for certain is that Mairi is not who she claims to be.

A dark, atmospheric novel rooted in folklore, desire and the pull of the sea.