A standalone sapphic prequel to The Salvage Claims, the gothic coastal why choose romance series.
Cane’s Folly, 1926—one hundred years before Flotsam.
Luella Cane is the island’s seamstress and the last Cane still claimed by its shores. She spends her days sewing wedding gowns for the hopeful and burial dresses for those the sea gives back.
Then Mercer enters her shop carrying a bolt of impossible gray silk.
The cloth has no selvage. Its raw edges refuse to unravel. And Mercer is just as unnatural: an ageless stranger who never removes her gloves and bears the name Cane’s Folly has feared for generations.
As Luella cuts and pins Mercer’s dress, desire takes shape between them—measured in lingering touches, whispered invitations, and the dangerous tenderness of being truly seen. But beyond the shop windows, the drownings are drawing closer to shore. The town is hoarding salt. A storm is gathering beyond the lighthouse.
Mercer was sent by the sea to collect the last Cane.
Falling in love with her was never supposed to change the claim.
To save the woman she was meant to take, Mercer must defy the force that shaped her. To keep the woman at her window, Luella must face the sea that has been reaching for her all year.
Some edges can be hemmed. Some claims can be resisted. But what Luella and Mercer have made between them may be the one thing neither sea nor shears can unravel.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Cane’s Folly, 1926—one hundred years before Flotsam.
Luella Cane is the island’s seamstress and the last Cane still claimed by its shores. She spends her days sewing wedding gowns for the hopeful and burial dresses for those the sea gives back.
Then Mercer enters her shop carrying a bolt of impossible gray silk.
The cloth has no selvage. Its raw edges refuse to unravel. And Mercer is just as unnatural: an ageless stranger who never removes her gloves and bears the name Cane’s Folly has feared for generations.
As Luella cuts and pins Mercer’s dress, desire takes shape between them—measured in lingering touches, whispered invitations, and the dangerous tenderness of being truly seen. But beyond the shop windows, the drownings are drawing closer to shore. The town is hoarding salt. A storm is gathering beyond the lighthouse.
Mercer was sent by the sea to collect the last Cane.
Falling in love with her was never supposed to change the claim.
To save the woman she was meant to take, Mercer must defy the force that shaped her. To keep the woman at her window, Luella must face the sea that has been reaching for her all year.
Some edges can be hemmed. Some claims can be resisted. But what Luella and Mercer have made between them may be the one thing neither sea nor shears can unravel.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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