Cozy meets cryptid up the hill where the carts get mended.
Margot Calder photographs other people's weddings for a living and keeps her gas tank above half, so leaving is always a decision and never a scramble.
One season in Hollow Tide, a rented cottage, the wedding work to do: that was the whole plan.
The cottage belongs to Asa Holt. Centaur, cartwright and haulier, the steadiest thing on the hill - a man raising his sister's daughter, carrying every weight the town hands him, and certain that wanting something for himself is a load he has no right to set down.
Across one long spring-into-summer - through a child who keeps a count of who comes back, a sister whose door is honestly open, and a survey on Mor Lake that could cost Margot the one place she came to photograph - a woman who has never been in any of her own pictures and a man who has never once been caught discover that to be held is not the same as to be kept.
Bellwether is Book Four of the Hollow Tide Cryptid Cove series: a cozy, literary-leaning paranormal romance about choosing and being chosen, with a blue-collar hero, a real child who is never a bargaining chip, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Every book stands alone. No cliffhangers.
Perfect for readers who love:- A heroine who always keeps one foot out the door
- A steady, blue-collar centaur hero
- Forced proximity: her rented cottage shares his yard
- Found family, and a child who is never a plot device
- Open-door heat and a happy ending, always
Return to the coast where humans and cryptids have shared the fog since 1978.