Salt & Secrets

(Book 2 of the Saltmere Chronicles)

☀️ Grumpy/sunshine • Forced partnership • Hidden magic • Steam before love
Rowan Blackwater is Saltmere’s golden boy—charming, relentlessly optimistic, and impossible to ignore. Tourists love him. Locals tolerate him. And every morning, he shows up at Morwenna Penrose’s door with coffee she swears she doesn’t want.
Morwenna doesn’t need Rowan’s smile—or his schemes to modernise her storm-lashed village. She needs the truth. Someone is sabotaging Saltmere’s secrecy, and Rowan is the only person with one foot in both worlds.
Thrown together to investigate, their partnership crackles with suspicion and sparks. Rowan refuses to let Morwenna hide behind her walls. Morwenna forces Rowan to face risks his optimism can’t smooth away. Their attraction burns fast, reckless, and undeniable—but love will have to wait, if it survives betrayal from within.
Because as sabotage escalates, Saltmere’s future hangs in the balance. Exposure or secrecy. Progress or preservation. Desire or heartbreak.
🔥 Perfect for fans of steamy small-town paranormal romance, British folklore, and grumpy/sunshine banter, Salt & Secrets is book two in the Saltmere Chronicles—standalone romances linked by selkie magic, sabotage, and the kind of steam that fogs up your Kindle.
This story is written in British English, with UK settings and folklore. Spelling, phrasing, and cultural details reflect the Cornish village it’s set in.
Currently available only in eBook

I read this in one sitting, I couldn’t put this book down. A brilliant story, about things that really matter. The outcome something I couldn’t work out (always a big plus).

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Great second book! Loved the pace, evocative descriptions and the weaving of all the threads! The magic and residents of Saltmere are really coming to life and anchoring themselves as these stories unfold. Bring on book 3!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amazon UK

Browse all the books in the series.

1. Salt & Bone

2. Salt & Secrets

3. Salt & Storms