The Lighthouse of Drowned Secrets

When Elowen Pencarrow comes home to her father's dark lighthouse, she finds a sleeping sea-dragon beneath the cottage - and a secret her family has kept for three hundred years.Three weeks after her father vanishes in a storm off the Cornish coast, Elowen returns to Nethergate Point to settle his affairs - and finds the lighthouse lamp unlit for the first time in thirty years. What she discovers beneath her family's cottage will upend everything she thought she knew about her quiet, dutiful father, her mother's early death, and the true reason the light has always turned exactly five seconds bright and five seconds dark.The Lighthouse of Drowned Secrets is a warm, atmospheric Victorian gothic fantasy for readers who love slow-burn romance, gentle mystery, and a coastline that keeps its secrets close. It follows Elowen as she learns to tend her father's light, uncovers a wounded, ancient creature chained in the caves below, and falls slowly, carefully in love with the reserved naturalist next door - all while a wealthy collector circles closer to the one thing her family has sworn, for seven generations, to protect.What's inside:- A cozy gothic mystery with real stakes but no graphic violence or darkness for its own sake- A slow-burn, entirely chaste romance built on trust, patience, and steady devotion- A hidden sea-creature, a smuggler's chamber, and a family Covenant three centuries old- A determined heroine who fights for her father's post - and her family's oldest promise- A satisfying, warm-hearted ending with no cliffhangers and no series to chasePerfect for readers of gaslamp fantasy and cozy gothic romance who want atmosphere without dread - evenings by the fire, a cup of tea, and a coastline full of quiet wonder. It also makes a thoughtful gift for anyone who loves lighthouses, the Cornish coast, or a good old-fashioned family mystery with a touch of magic.