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A deep vibrant purple background with three figures in 1860s Victorian dress, two women and a man. One of the women is reaching out her hand to the man at the right, with a large country house silhouetted below them. They're surrounded with a swirl of stars.

At Home To Company (1863)

Out on November 6th, 2026. Preorder now!

In 1863, Hereswith is looking to solve a number of problems and needs. Attending a series of house parties to build connections and learn more, she navigates the restrictions of Victorian assumptions, using all her skills (and Bess’s) in pursuit of her goals.

The second book in the Council Mysteries, At Home to Company can be read in any order, but follows after Hereswith and Bess’s romance in Claiming the Tower in 1854. It adds a romance between Hereswith and Galahad to Hereswith’s existing partnership with Bess (forming a FFM relationship).

Content notes and representation

The plot deals with the implications of the American Civil War (as we call it now) on Britain, including massive poverty due to the cotton mills shutting down, blockade running, and various attempts at diplomacy. Battles and the aftermath are mentioned, but without details on the page.

Bess and Hereswith’s F/F relationship continues, but this is Hereswith’s romance with Galahad, forming a FFM V relationship by the end of the book with Hereswith as the point of the V. (Bess remains uninterested in men for romance or related purposes.) All of the protagonists here are their 40s (Galahad and Hereswith) or 50s (Bess).

In the works

The Heart of the Work

Out in February 2027

Felix needs one more thing to complete his apprenticeship in ritual magic and fulfil the promise that Animus Mundi saw in him. But he’s been battered by the Great War, the flu, and so many other changes and demands. Ritual doesn’t seem like it matters anymore. When he presses on and asks Miranda, a librarian at Trellech’s main library for help, they dive into research that promises hope for them and for those around them. First book in the coming Mysterious Societies series focusing on Albion’s secret societies – and the Trellech Library! This takes place in the second half of 1919.

Familiar Haunt

Out in May 2027

In 1878, the Council hears of odd ghostly appearances in London. The city is every changing – now with electric lights along the Embankment and an ongoing fascination with spiritualism. Hereswith, Bess, and Galahad investigate, along with two cousins who have recently joined Albion’s Council, Metaia and Owain Powell. The five of them explore a number of eddies of London’s particular magic.

Out now! (Recent releases)

Brave Truth : Two men in suits, cut for 1950, silhouetted on a bright orange and red background with a stone tower behind them. The man on the left is stockier, hands grasped behind his back, the slighter man in the centre stands ready to move in any direction, one hand reaching for bottles of amber cider on a table to the right. Stars circle around them.

Brave Truth (1950)

Claudio has made a great many changes in his life in the last five years. Matty’s returned from devastating work in the aftermath of World War 2 and needs to build a life he wants to live. When Matty takes over a key administrative meeting that includes Claudio, the two of them find they share not only several goals but a delight and commitment to doing things better. That’s before a new challenge arises.

Brave Truth is a M/M romance about deciding who you want to be as an adult, reaching for the impossible, and discovering desires you never knew you had.

Content notes and representation

Both characters experience social and familial disapproval about relationship choices (being gay). It’s in a context where they have other support and resources (including some unexpected ones, by the end of the book). As they note in the book, homosexuality is illegal in Britain, though Albion does not prosecute for it.

One character is dealing with moral injury and panic attacks due to work after World War II focused on details of war crimes and genocide. The focus is on the impact of the judicial and administrative work, with no specifics about particular wartime events on the page.

Cover of Unknown Depths: A man and woman silhouetted against a blue background with a wave rising up above them. They are looking down, in conversation with a seal. He wears a peaked cap, jacket, and boots, while she has a long braid down her back and is wearing a shalwar kameeze with a bit of her dupatta hanging over her arm.

Unknown Depths (1949)

Something has gone wrong in the Orkney waters. The winter storms aren’t fading, the currents are stronger than ever, and Thom’s Gran has had a vision. Following her instructions, he finds Rowena, a woman whose background utterly confuses him. He’s a selkie. He knows the water and its dangers. The land is another problem entirely.

Unknown Depths is full of the magical ecology of Orkney, what happens when magic is bottled up for too long, and what freedom and hope feel like. Set in 1949, this M/F romance explores the northern coast of Scotland and Orkney, along with the finfolk and several other legends.

Content notes and representation

Unknown Depths involves interactions with a number of magical beings, some of whom are more directly dangerous than others.

It also includes abuse (familial control, institutionalisation) of a secondary character that is resolved happily in the course of the book, and some complex family secrets. Rowena is half-Bengali, half-English, and makes use of that distinction at several points in the book.

Distilling Sunlight: A man and woman in 1920s clothing - he has a peaked cap - stand silhouetted on a glowing golden and amber background swirled with stars. They're holding bottles of beer, the same gold as the background, with hops and other ingredients inset in the upper right corner.

Distilling Sunlight (1889)

Sam wants his brewery to succeed, but problems keep cropping up. When he asks for help, he gets Gemma, an alchemist who’s from an entirely different sort of background than anything he knows.

Distilling Sunlight is a later-in-life M/F romance about looking ahead to a different future than you expected, working with the skills and resources you have, and bringing a little sunlight back into the world.

Content notes and representation

This book deals with varying kinds of long-standing grief. The heroine’s mother died in childbirth (having her) in a way that no one could stop at the time, and it has a longstanding impact on her, her father, and her extended family (including several of her life choices to the start of the book). Gemma also has ADHD, and time blindness is an ongoing challenge.

The hero’s wife died of cancer about two years before the start of the book, leaving her husband and two sons. Neither is discussed in extensive medical detail (a sentence or three about the first, discussion of the progression over time limiting what Nell could do with her sons in the latter case), but the impact of both is present throughout the book. Late in the book, there’s also discussion of the impact of the Great War and ongoing grief for those deaths.

Otherwise, the book deals with class differences and is set at a brewery. It discusses medicinal beers, and people drink beer (and discuss beer) at a number of points in the book.