Shadows of the Cathedral

She came to the monastery to disappear. She did not expect to be found.

When Zara Voss's car breaks down on a remote mountain road in the middle of the night, the ancient monastery of Sant'Elia appears through the fog like something that has been waiting for her. She has forty-eight hours before dangerous people come looking, a secret sewn into the lining of her coat, and nowhere else to go.

Father Tobias Crane opens the gate. He already knows her name.

What begins as refuge quickly becomes something more complicated: a priest with a history he has not confessed, a building with a purpose no one will name, and a connection that neither of them can afford and neither of them intends to stop. As Zara uncovers the monastery's true function, as old crimes and older secrets surface from beneath six hundred years of stone, she must decide whether the man offering her protection is the person she believes him to be, or the person his past insists he remains.

Shadows of the Cathedral is a gothic romance about penance and passion, about the architecture of guilt, and about two people who have spent their lives building careful distances from the things that matter most, arriving, finally, at the same threshold.

For readers of slow-burn forbidden romance, atmospheric gothic thriller, and morally complex love stories in which no one is entirely clean and the feeling is entirely real.