Novella

The Girl from Willow’s End

A live-in hotel job offers Evelyn Reid a fresh start on her twenty-fifth birthday. But someone on Grand Isle requested her by name—and her arrival brings an ancient family bargain closer to fulfilment.

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On her twenty-fifth birthday, Evelyn Reid receives an opportunity she cannot afford to refuse: a live-in position at the Coral Breeze hotel on Grand Isle. Better wages could support her family and bring a home of her own within reach.
But someone requested Evelyn by name. Behind the hotel’s gracious welcome, staff watch her movements, warnings arrive in whispers, and permission to leave becomes impossible to obtain. To escape, Evelyn must turn the domestic skills her employers overlook against a man who has been expecting her long before she was born.

About the Series

The Grand Isle Trilogy

Off Jamaica’s coast, the Coral Breeze hotel promises comfort, opportunity, and escape. For one family, every invitation carries a debt.

In 1925, a young maid accepts a position that could transform her life—only to discover someone requested her by name. Thirty years later, a relative follows a trail of suppressed letters and plantation records back to the island. In 1985, an exhausted married couple accepts a free getaway, entering a hotel where the dead still have unfinished business.

Connecting them is a bargain made in 1775, when an enslaved mother turned to a bush doctor to save her daughter from a brutal fate. Generations later, Ramirez remains bound to the property, guarding the Book of Names and waiting for the descendants promised to him.

Across three intimate horror novellas, survival depends on practical ingenuity, dangerous family knowledge, and the courage to challenge a power that has spent centuries making captivity feel inevitable.

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