Overview

The drawer shouldn’t open.
But it does—smooth, certain—like someone has decided Mara is done avoiding the truth.

The air in Bramblewick’s little library turns cold and sweet, scented with rain and violets.
A ribbon rests inside the tissue paper. A pressed flower. A letter that shouldn’t exist.
And a name Mara can’t stop seeing everywhere—on old records, on margin notes, on the edges of her thoughts.

Mara is in her early thirties, newly diagnosed with ADHD, and trying to rebuild her life one careful routine at a time. Bramblewick is the kind of small English town that smiles politely, gossips viciously, and keeps its history neat enough to display.

But the paranormal doesn’t care about neat.

When strange “patterns” begin to surface—objects moving, lights flickering, messages appearing where they shouldn’t—Mara realises the haunting isn’t here to hurt anyone. It’s here to be heard.

And then there’s Rowan: grounded, sharp-eyed, quietly kind. The sort of woman who doesn’t treat Mara’s scattered focus like a flaw—or her hyperfocus like a joke. The more Mara pulls at the town’s buried threads, the more the mystery tightens… and the more her feelings for Rowan start to feel like their own kind of supernatural inevitability.

Because someone in Bramblewick tried to erase a love story long ago.

And the ghost won’t rest until Mara helps stitch it back together.

✅ Cozy sapphic paranormal romance
✅ Small-town English setting
✅ Neurodivergent heroine (ADHD, newly diagnosed)
✅ Gentle slow-burn romance
✅ Found family + warm community vibes
✅ Library/archives mystery + queer history
✅ Soft spooky atmosphere (cozy, not horror)