The Rum Runner: The Legend of Captain John Stewart

A house that eats people, the immortal captain who built it, and a love that refuses to die. 

Caroline came to steal his secrets. 

But he stole her heart.

When Case Pharmaceuticals investigator Caroline Oliver arrives at a decaying mansion on the Maine coast, just as a hurricane closes in, she expects corporate secrets tied to rumors of eternal life. Instead, she finds a house that is alive… and a man who should not exist.

Edward Kelly is a billionaire of impossible age and rumored to be the long-dead Prohibition-era smuggler, Captain John Stewart. Haunted by a century-old curse, Stewart has spent decades hiding from a past that refuses to stay buried.

A hundred years earlier, along the same storm-lashed coast, a private nurse named Ruth Wilson stepped into a world of passion, smugglers, secrets, and fell in love with a man the sea refused to drown.

Now the house they built together remembers everything.

As Caroline uncovers the truth of that past, she awakens something vengeful within the house's walls: something bound to betrayal, desire, and the cost of immortality. With a ruthless pharmaceutical company closing in, she and Edward must confront the past, the house, and a force born in dark waters.

Because some storms do not end with the water. Some follow a man ashore and wait for him in the dark. 

And some loves refuse to die.

A gothic romance with strong horror and fantasy elements, The Cliff House Trilogy blends dual timelines, supernatural mystery, and an enduring love that spans more than a century.

This omnibus edition includes all three novels, presenting the complete story of a haunted house, a generational curse, and a love that may be the only force powerful enough to break it.

Perfect for readers of:

Rebecca
The Haunting of Hill House