Salt & Whispers

Some stones remember more than they should.

Psychometric researcher Mara Llewellyn came to Saltmere for a quiet summer documenting historic sites, not to trigger wild magic every time she touches granite. Her abilities have always shown her history-echoes, impressions, fragments.

But here in Cornwall, the stone wakes up.

And the guarded local who keeps steering her away from the most interesting places? He knows exactly why.

Jamie Penrose has spent months rebuilding the protections he accidentally shattered-wards his family has maintained for generations. The last thing Saltmere needs is a curious Welsh academic whose touch makes the boundaries hum, the chapel bells ring, and the old mines stir with energy best left undisturbed.

He should keep his distance.

He definitely shouldn't be imagining what happens when their magic-and everything else-collides.

But when Mara's touch reactivates the wild magic sleeping beneath Saltmere, the consequences ripple through every ward Jamie has ever cast. The boundaries are failing. The energy is rising. And the only solution might bind them together permanently ... whether either of them is ready for that or not.

Because some bonds aren't chosen-they're forged under pressure, sealed with magic, and strong enough to outlast stone.

A British paranormal romance featuring:

• A psychic heroine with touch-based magic
• A protective hero with a quiet redemption arc
• Cornish mining folklore and wild coastal magic
• Fated bonds and charged chemistry
• Small-town secrets, family duty, and ancient warding magic

Salt & Whispers is the fifth in The Saltmere Chronicles, a steamy British paranormal romance series set in coastal Cornwall, filled with psychic magic, fated bonds, and village secrets rooted in Cornish folklore.

Contains mature content. Written in British English with authentic Cornish setting and dialect.