A century-old curse.A house that hungers.A love that refuses to fade.When investigator, Caroline Oliver, braves an approaching hurricane to infiltrate a decaying estate on the rocky Maine coast, she expects secrets. She doesn't expect Edward Kelly.Rumored to be over a hundred years old.Beautiful.Haunted.And hiding a past the world was never meant to know.A century earlier, Captain John Stewart, rum runner and fierce protector of the woman he loved, survived a storm no man should live through. The ocean gave him life, but not mercy. The miracle he carried ashore built his fortune, took his soul, and awakened something dark within the walls of the mansion he named Cliff House.Now the house is alive.Lonely.Vengeful.And it remembers every scream.Caroline's arrival stirs long-buried echoes: an undying love, a house corrupted by Prohibition, and a destiny waiting to be fulfilled.To survive, she and Edward must face:A power born in forbidden waters.A house possessed by the sins of its past.A legacy of love stretching across generations.And a final choice between mortality and eternity.Because some storms never truly end…they wait.And some loves are not lost…they return when the world needs them most.For readers of Outlander, The Winter Sea, and sweeping gothic romances with a sacred heart: a saga of tragedy, healing, and a love strong enough to defeat death itself. Doralynn Kennedy has done a lot of different things over the years, but she has always considered herself a writer. She has a varied career-from candy striper, blackjack dealer, and pit boss-to professional driver, MT, and victims' advocate with her local police department. She also served as a Military Police woman in the Army in her youth. She mostly worked law enforcement, but she was also attached to PSD, Personal Security Detachment. They provided security for high-ranking officers. At one point, her team also provided residential security for the CIA Station Chief in Frankfurt, Germany. She mostly worked uniform, but she has also done some undercover. Among other things, her Military Occupational Specialty and training included law enforcement, crime scene investigation, counterterrorism, bomb threats, and hostage situations. She has traveled extensively inside and outside of the United States. She writes part time from her home in Colorado.
