The Salt-Bone House

When forensic archivist Talia Whitmore arrives in Blackwater Bay to catalog the remains hidden inside the walls of a condemned coastal estate, she expects corruption, missing records, and old violence buried beneath generations of silence.She does not expect the house to remember.The Salt-Bone House has stood over the bay for more than a century, its halls soaked in saltwater, grief, and whispered rumors about women who vanished behind locked doors. Every wall contains secrets. Every hidden room tells a different version of the town’s history. And somewhere beneath the foundation, something ancient is still listening.Shifter investigator Declan Marsh has spent years trying to outrun the curse tied to his bloodline and the woman he failed to save. But when bodies begin surfacing inside the house’s sealed passages, Declan is forced back into the heart of Blackwater Bay’s darkest legacy-and directly into Talia’s investigation.The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Because the dead hidden inside the walls were never meant to be found.Someone inside Blackwater Bay has spent decades protecting the town’s secrets through intimidation, manipulated evidence, and carefully buried history. And the closer Talia and Declan get to the truth, the more the house itself begins to react.Doors open where none existed before.Saltwater bleeds through courtroom evidence.Voices whisper behind sealed walls.And beneath the bay, an ancient route tied to witches, shifters, and vanished brides is beginning to wake again.As storms close in and the town turns against them, Talia and Declan uncover a conspiracy stretching back generations-one built on sacrifice, silence, and a terrifying bargain hidden beneath the water.But exposing the truth may cost them everything.Because Blackwater Bay was never built to let its secrets leave alive.Perfect for fans of gothic paranormal romance, atmospheric mystery, haunted-house suspense, and slow-burn supernatural love stories, The Salt-Bone House is a dark and emotionally charged paranormal romantic suspense novel about grief, inheritance, forbidden truths, and choosing love in a town built on fear.