Where Darkness Lingers by Eve Silver

The dead have been waiting for Minerva Ashworth. Now, they’ve finally brought her home.Orphaned and destitute, Minerva inherits Cliff Cottage on the windswept Cornish coast from a cousin she’s never met. It seems like salvation.Until she discovers some inheritances demand a terrible price.Her new home should be a sanctuary. Instead, floors creak where no one walks. Shadowed figures watch from the darkness. And vivid dreams haunt her nights. The dead want something from her, and they refuse to be denied.Her nearest neighbor, brooding and enigmatic Dashiell Penrose, is a man of few words, followed by whispers that he is a murderer. He warns Minerva to leave Cliff Cottage while she still can, but she soon realizes he knows far more about the haunting and about her inheritance than he should.As the dead draw ever closer and Cliff Cottage’s long-buried secrets begin to surface, Minerva must decide if Dashiell is her protector…or something far more dangerous.For readers who crave haunted cottages, brooding heroes, slow-burn desire, and chilling ghostly mysteries, this standalone historical gothic romance will leave you breathless.