The Saltmere Chronicles
Six standalone paranormal romances. One village. Ancient magic, modern hearts, and a coastline that keeps its secrets.
Saltmere doesn't appear on any map. The Ordnance Survey missed it — or perhaps decided, collectively and without discussion, that some places are better left unfound. The village knows it's there. So does the sea.
Each book follows a different couple, their story complete from first page to last. The magic is Cornish and old and doesn't particularly explain itself. The romance is the kind that costs something before it gives anything back.
You can start anywhere. Most readers start with Salt & Bone and work through in order. A few pick the cover that calls to them and find their own way in. Both approaches work — the village is patient.
Read if you like: slow burn romance · Cornish folklore and mythology · atmospheric British settings · stories where place feels like a character · steamy paranormal romance · complete series
Latest Release
Salt & Light
Some secrets have consequences. His just ran away to Cornwall.
Rosamunde Carbis is Saltmere's resident sea witch—tide magic, ancient partnerships with Cornish sea spirits, and fourteen months of carefully avoiding Dr Kieran Ashworth, the academic who nearly destroyed her village. Who's spent all that time trying to prove he's changed.
Nobody knew Kieran had a child until his nine-year-old daughter appears in the village square, alone and terrified, looking for her dad.
Lily ran away from London because something underground is calling to her—old magic, angry voices, liminal spaces only she can sense. And she's not the only one hearing it. Saltmere's magical children are being marked by spriggans, grotesque Cornish spirits who guard ancient places... and steal children.
The mines beneath the village have been disturbed. The boundaries are breaking. And the spriggans want something.
Rosamunde should walk away. But watching Kieran parent with quiet desperation, seeing Lily find friends who don't think she's strange, feeling domestic routines form in the spaces between crisis—her walls are cracking faster than Saltmere's foundations.
Some partnerships start with magic. Some families are forged in crisis. And some sea witches discover that the most dangerous thing isn't the spriggans...
It's wanting to stay.
Salt & Lightis the sixth and final book in The Saltmere Chronicles, a steamy British paranormal romance series set in coastal Cornwall, where ancient magic meets modern love.
Contains mature content. Written in British English with authentic Cornish setting and dialect.
Saltmere Chronicles Series
Standalone paranormal romance novels set amidst the beautiful landscapes of Cornwall, layered with Cornish folklore.
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Note from Toria
The Saltmere Chronicles began with a question I couldn't shake: what would it feel like to live somewhere the old magic never left? Just quietly present, woven into the fabric of daily life the way salt gets into everything near the sea.
Cornwall gave me the answer. There's something genuinely old in that landscape — in the tin mines and the standing stones and the way the coast behaves like it has opinions. Saltmere grew out of that feeling. The village doesn't appear on any map, but it exists in the way all fictional places exist: completely, once you've been there.
I hope you find your way in.
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