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The Drowned Bell: A Cozy Gothic Fantasy with Slow-Burn Romance and Coastal Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Hollowtide Chronicles, Book 2
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For a hundred and thirty-seven years, the sea kept her name - and now it wants to give her back.
When a barnacled bell surfaces off the coast of Hollowtide Cove, humming with something that isn't quite sound, Maren Veyne is the only one willing to ask where it came from. As the village's heritage keeper and the woman who tends its lighthouse, she has spent her life cataloguing what everyone else would rather forget. But this bell belongs to the Carrow Maid - a ship lost in 1887 - and the records tell a story that doesn't add up. Nine drowned. Two survived. And a twelfth soul aboard that night, a girl from Maren's own bloodline, struck from the count as though the cove had decided, on purpose, that she had never existed at all.
The only person who knows the truth has been keeping it for three hundred years.
Calder is the Warden of this coast: immortal, guarded, and carrying a grief he has never once set down. He was there the night the Carrow Maid went under, because what befell her began with a choice he has spent three centuries unable to take back. Now Maren is pulling at threads he has prayed no one would ever touch - and the closer she comes to the drowned name at the heart of it, the harder it becomes for either of them to keep their careful distance.
Some bargains are inherited. Some are meant to be broken.
To free the name the sea has been holding, Maren will have to decide what she truly owes the past - and Calder will have to choose, at last, between the silence that has kept his coast safe and the woman teaching him the difference between obedience and doing what is right.
The Drowned Bell is a slow-burn gothic fantasy steeped in salt air, old secrets, and the ache of two people circling something neither of them dares to name. It's a quiet, atmospheric read for anyone who likes their romance patient, their mysteries tidal, and their magic soft enough to hear beneath the waves.
Readers will love:
- A cozy gothic fantasy wrapped in fog, lantern-light, and a haunted seaside village
- A true slow-burn romance between a guarded immortal and a woman who refuses to stop asking questions
- A coastal mystery built on an old shipwreck, buried records, and a family secret the tide won't let rest
- A small Cornish setting where the lighthouse, the harbor, and the sea itself feel like characters
- Quiet, literary fantasy for fans of atmosphere over action and feeling over spectacle
Return to Hollowtide Cove, where the water remembers everything - and the tide is finally ready to give it back.
Book Two of The Hollowtide Chronicles, the series that began with Siren of Hollowtide Cove.
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