The Witches of Môrlan
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
Stormbound
The sea remembers what people forgot.
Cate Morgan has questions. Why did her mother flee this Welsh coastal town thirty years ago and never look back? What happened here that she refuses to speak of? Taking the harbourmaster job in Môrlan feels less like a career move and more like the only way she'll ever find out.
Within days of arriving, Cate finds herself drawn into a circle of witches who practise a magic she recognises in her bones — older and stranger than anything she taught herself: a baker who reads the truth beneath words, a forensic pathologist who speaks with the dead, a blacksmith who forges protection into iron, and a powerful witch with an Otherworld hound. They don't know her mother. But someone in Môrlan does. Someone who's been burying secrets for decades.
The closer Cate gets to the truth, the more dangerous the questions become. Because whatever happened to her mother thirty years ago is still happening.
Stormbound is a paranormal mystery rooted in Welsh folklore, set on the wild Pembrokeshire coast. Perfect for readers of TJ Green, Sarah Painter, and anyone who’s ever wanted to move to a harbour town and start over.
The Witches of Môrlan 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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