Some houses hold memories. This one holds something older.
When Margot Bellamy drives eleven hours from Ohio with nothing but a bruised heart and a suitcase, inheriting a crumbling Victorian inn on the Maine coast feels less like a windfall and more like a dare.
Her husband left. Her job of fifteen years vanished. And now she's the reluctant owner of Mourning Cove Inn - where the kitchen has been ruled by Pearl since 1934, the presence in the walls is definitely not the furnace, and a judgmental tabby named Hemingway has already decided she's inadequate. Not every presence in these walls means her well.
Oliver at the bookshop arrives with warm sourdough bread and butter. Isla and Theo have opinions about everything. And not every guest who checks in is entirely... living.
Some of what lingers in Mourning Cove is lost. Some of it is dangerous. And some of it has been waiting a very long time.
But the inn is watching. The turret locks and unlocks without reason. And the longer Margot stays, the more she understands that Mourning Cove didn't come to her by accident.
It chose her.
Ghoul Intentions is the first book in the Midlife at Mourning Cove series - gothic paranormal fiction for readers who love atmospheric mystery, found family, and heroines who face the supernatural with wit, grit, and absolutely no patience for the inexplicable.
Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and cozy-dark gothic fiction.