When the lantern fails, the covenant calls its debt.
Elizabeth Bennet has lost nearly everything—her father, her eldest sister to the sea, and any future she once imagined for herself. When a centuries-old trust names her steward of Blackscar Lantern, a remote lighthouse on the Northumberland coast, she accepts the post for the only reason left to her: it is a purpose, and purpose is what she has instead of hope.
She expects solitude. She finds a keeper.
Fitzwilliam Darcy has tended the light for five years, alone, under a name that is not the whole truth. Proud, exacting, and bound to the tower by a debt he will not speak of, he has no use for a steward—least of all one who questions his methods, ignores his authority, and refuses to be frightened by the dark.
But the flame knows what they do not. And the ancient covenant written into the stones of Blackscar demands something neither of them is prepared to give.
When Darcy is called away, and the lantern begins to fail, Elizabeth must hold the light alone—against the winter, against the men who would see the trust dissolved, and against the growing certainty that the man she has come to need is not coming back.
A Regency romantasy of love, loss, and light—where the sea keeps its secrets, the flame answers only to faith, and two people must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep a promise older than memory.
Genre: Historical Romance
Elizabeth Bennet has lost nearly everything—her father, her eldest sister to the sea, and any future she once imagined for herself. When a centuries-old trust names her steward of Blackscar Lantern, a remote lighthouse on the Northumberland coast, she accepts the post for the only reason left to her: it is a purpose, and purpose is what she has instead of hope.
She expects solitude. She finds a keeper.
Fitzwilliam Darcy has tended the light for five years, alone, under a name that is not the whole truth. Proud, exacting, and bound to the tower by a debt he will not speak of, he has no use for a steward—least of all one who questions his methods, ignores his authority, and refuses to be frightened by the dark.
But the flame knows what they do not. And the ancient covenant written into the stones of Blackscar demands something neither of them is prepared to give.
When Darcy is called away, and the lantern begins to fail, Elizabeth must hold the light alone—against the winter, against the men who would see the trust dissolved, and against the growing certainty that the man she has come to need is not coming back.
A Regency romantasy of love, loss, and light—where the sea keeps its secrets, the flame answers only to faith, and two people must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep a promise older than memory.
Genre: Historical Romance