This Inhuman Heart

In 1888, England fears the monster stalking its streets. Blackmere has a monster of its own.

When Poppy Whitby accepts a position at the remote Nightcroft Manor in North Yorkshire, she expects a quiet life in the service of a reclusive gentleman. Instead, she finds Tristan Nightcroft, a man of unsettling beauty, dangerous secrets, and a darkness that reaches far beyond anything whispered about him.

Tristan has spent centuries learning to live with what he is. He keeps his distance from the living, conceals the truth of his nature, and carries a burden no ordinary man could endure.

Poppy, however, unsettles the careful isolation he has built around himself. She is strangely resistant to the very things that make him dangerous, and the closer she comes to him, the harder it becomes to deny the connection growing between them.

But England is already drowning in fear.

As the horrors of Whitechapel grip the nation, women begin disappearing from Blackmere. Their deaths bear the dreadful hallmarks of a killer the newspapers have taught the country to fear, and suspicion turns toward the shadowed estate on the edge of town. With every new murder, the walls close in around Tristan, and the woman who has begun to see something worth saving beneath his inhuman exterior must decide where her loyalties lie.

Then a figure from Tristan's past returns, bringing old wounds, possessive devotion, and a threat far more personal than the townspeople could imagine.

In a world where monsters can wear respectable faces and love can be as dangerous as hatred, Poppy must discover the truth behind the bloodshed before Blackmere condemns the wrong creature.

Because the most terrifying question is not whether a monster can love.

It is whether a heart that was never meant to be human can learn to love without destroying everything it touches.

This Inhuman Heart is a standalone gothic romantasy featuring a brooding vampire, Victorian shadows, a deadly murder mystery, dangerous obsession, and a love that defies the boundaries between humanity and monstrosity.