Overview

Welcome back to Tideglass Harbor, where the Moonveil fog turns every light into a promise and every kiss into a ward. On the year’s longest night, events chair Eden Park has one job: shepherd the town through the Solstice ritual with zero drama and a smile that says she has it all handled. Except she does not. Goodwill is sliding, the Harbor Binding is due for a consent‑centric rewrite, and the Copper Mask’s shrine keeps humming like it knows her name. Enter Priya Bose, a brilliant curse‑breaking historian who left academia for reasons the rumor mill will not stop spinning. She arrives with a field kit, a spine of steel, and the one thing Eden has forgotten how to ask for: help.

When the Moonveil thins the boundary, Tideglass needs more than pretty lanterns. It needs a plan that treats care as choreography. Eden and Priya build a ritual like a run‑of‑show: consent spoken out loud, anchors on the breakwater, headphones for the calm chorus, cocoa ready for aftercare. The town becomes a benevolent choir, the lighthouse answers with rainbows on the ice, and the old diagram on the Fresnel pedestal clicks into something that finally makes sense. But the Saltworks Trust smells opportunity in any wobble. They are ready with polished talking points, sponsorship banners, and a safety narrative that would sell Tideglass’s soul for ticketed thrills.

Eden does not date during crisis season. Priya does not do second chances with people‑pleasing caretakers who forget their own boundaries. Too bad the chemistry between them feels like striking a match in a room full of good kindling. Their consent script is clear. Their attraction is not polite. A blindfold and a citrus slice in the quiet greenhouse. A warm shower after a long night’s drill, laughter caught in a kiss. Every on‑page moment is adult, enthusiastic, and followed by soft towels, water, and words. Because in Tideglass, magic only amplifies what is freely given.

Solstice Vows and Shadow Woes delivers a full happily‑ever‑after for Eden and Priya and moves the series arc forward with a ritual that proves civic safety and joy can coexist. Expect atmospheric scares without gore, town‑thread banter, a copper‑masked legend seen in a new light, and the kind of raunchy, retail‑safe heat that turns a winter night into a promise. This is a cozy‑spooky sapphic romance with open‑door spice, a mischievous child ghost who prefers striped mints to mayhem, and a Theme Party Kit in the back matter so you can throw your own Longest Night masquerade at home.

Read as a stand‑alone or in series order. If you love competence kink, consent made sexy, small‑town found family, and women who rescue each other from the stories that once kept them small, you are about to fall for Tideglass Harbor.