The Blackthorn Triptych: 1

Some inherit houses. Eleanor Hartley inherited a bookshop, a dog, and a mystery.When Eleanor leaves her quiet librarian life in London to claim Blackthorn Books & Curiosities, she expects nothing more than a fresh start after the loss of her parents. Instead, she finds Thornstone - a remote Lancashire village.The shop is charming but strange. Her late great-aunt is remembered with an unsettling kind of fondness. And Moss, the lurcher is far too clever to be an ordinary dog.Then she meets Con - a man tied to the village in ways he won't explain.As old stories rise to the surface, Eleanor begins to understand that her great-aunt left her more than a business. She left her a legacy. A gift. And a danger she does not yet understand.Thornstone keeps its truths buried deep. But the moor remembers everything.The Blackthorn Triptych is Book One of Thornstone: A Gothic Fantasy Trilogy.