Coldstream
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Nikola Muckajev
Published: Apr 26 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the border town of Coldstream, lovers come to make vows the world tried to forbid.
Edmund Harrow and Clara Rowan arrive in the rain, fleeing family pressure, social duty, and the lives chosen for them by other people. Coldstream is meant to be their threshold: the place where love becomes law, where defiance becomes destiny, where a single declaration can make them free.
But beneath the bridge, the river begins to speak.
It does not show them monsters. It shows them rooms. Years. Silence. A child who may never live and already matters. A marriage not destroyed by hatred, but slowly starved by love forced to carry too much.
As Edmund and Clara uncover the history of another Rowan woman who came to Coldstream before them, they are forced to ask whether love is still sacred when it becomes a door, a proof, a rebellion, or a cage.
Coldstream is a literary gothic novel about prophecy, refusal, romantic mythology, and the terrible dignity of sparing a vow before it becomes a life.
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