Publication Day - The Dark Marshes




I'm delighted to announce that The Dark Marshes, my gothic romance, is published today. Heavily inspired by Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White, it is an epistolary novel telling the story of Henrietta Marsh, who is incarcerated in an asylum for an undisclosed crime. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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