Ghoul Intentions: Midlife At Mourning Cove

Margot Bellamy drove eleven hours from Ohio with nothing but a bruised heart and a suitcase. Her husband left. Her job of fifteen years vanished. And when a Maine coastal inn she's never seen turns up in a great-aunt's will, it feels less like an inheritance and more like a dare.

Mourning Cove Inn has been standing on the cliffs above the harbor for over a century, and it hasn't forgotten a single year of it. The kitchen has been ruled by Pearl since 1934. The presence in the walls is definitely not the furnace. And a judgmental tabby cat named Hemingway has already decided Margot is inadequate for the job.

Not every guest who checks in is entirely... living. There's Vivienne, who has been waiting in the east parlor for fifty years for someone who never came home. There's Eleanor, whose quiet Victorian composure hides a history nobody living remembers anymore.

And there's whatever occupies the room at the end of the hall — the one that was never meant to be a guest room in the first place.

As Margot settles into a town she never expected to call home, she finds unlikely allies: Oliver at the bookshop, who arrives with warm bread and quiet kindness; the twins, Isla and Theo, who have opinions about everything and no patience for secrets; and a house that seems to be testing her, one strange creak and cold spot at a time.

Some of what lingers in Mourning Cove is lost. Some of it is dangerous. And some of it has simply been waiting for the right person to notice. The turret locks and unlocks without reason. The past has a way of resurfacing exactly when it's least convenient. And the longer Margot stays, the more she suspects Mourning Cove didn't come to her by accident.

It chose her. Ghoul Intentions is the first book in the Midlife at Mourning Cove series — gothic paranormal fiction for readers who love atmospheric mystery, found family, second chances, and heroines who face the supernatural with wit, grit, and absolutely no patience for the inexplicable. Perfect for