Dovecombe: A Novel

Arson, obsession, and unrequited love lie at the center of this twisted Gothic mystery set in a crumbling English manor.

Intense, repressed Dorrie is secretly in love with vivid, self-assured Alys. When Dorrie’s abusive marriage implodes, the two women flee to Alys’s remote family home, Dovecombe Manor. But instead of a haven, Dorrie finds a ruin sunk deep in eerie woodland, held in limbo by a decade-old unsolved arson, and haunted by a historic curse. Locals say that the oak trees surroundi...