Cape Herring: A Hollow Tide Cryptid Cove Novel · Book Two

Cozy meets cryptid where the mothmen come home.Naia Orris has kept the Cape Herring light alone for nine years, and let no one stay.She has the tower, the logbooks, and eighteen minutes of dawn flight from the widow's walk that belong to nobody else. She is the eldest of five, which in her family is a job and not a birth order, and she has spent twelve years making the small declinings that keep everyone else comfortable. Naia does not need company. She has arranged an entire life to prove it. Then Jonas Marrit arrives with a notebook, a six-month grant, and a folklorist's patience - seven years a widower, and a man who has learned how to be alone without becoming it. He has come to record the cryptid families of this coast, and the interview he actually wants is with Naia's grandmother: a hundred and eight years old, and the family's living memory of 1978. He sets up in the archive annex off her cottage wall. He is unfailingly courteous. He is there every day. And a woman who has kept a light alone for nine years finds out that the hard thing was never being seen. It is being waited for. Cape Herring is Book Two of the Hollow Tide Cryptid Cove series: cozy, open-door paranormal romance with a slow burn, a warm found-family ensemble, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Every book stands alone. No cliffhangers. The light stays lit. The family shows up. Perfect for readers who love: - A guarded heroine and a patient, steady hero- Slow burn and forced proximity in one small stone building- Mothman tenderness and matter-of-fact monster romance- Small-town warmth on a foggy Oregon coast- Open-door heat and a happy ending, always Return to the coast where humans and cryptids have shared the fog since 1978.