Fiona Mapleton

A letter arrives sealed with black wax.

Elira Rialle never applied to Vespera Collegium. Girls like her are not admitted to the empire’s most elite magical academy — not without family, fortune, patronage, or a name worth recognizing. She is a border-born war orphan with a hidden affinity she has spent years suppressing, surviving quietly in the...

Some places hold on to what happened in them. Some won’t let go.

A skeptical journalist walks into a fog-choked cemetery to debunk viral ghost recordings—and walks out missing something he can’t name. A night-shift nurse finishes her rounds in a hospice ward where one patient’s presence refuses to fade. A teenager unpacks boxes in a house that...

A blind medium. A murdered ghost. A killer who’s gotten away with it for seventy years.
When Mara Westfield inherits a cottage in the coastal town of Thornfield Hollow, she’s hoping for a fresh start after her divorce and vision loss. Instead, she gets a seventy-year-old mystery—and the ghost of the man at its center.
Nathaniel Thorne was pushed...