The Blackmere Letters, Book One
The Last Letter from Blackmere House
The Last Letter from Blackmere House is Book One of The Blackmere Letters, a slow-burn, closed-door gothic romance mystery by Eleanor Vale. A paper conservator, a house left to her by a stranger, and three farewell letters that were never written by the woman who signed them. The ebook is $2.99.
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The dead are easier to trust than the living, which is why Iris Cole has spent her life restoring their letters, and why she has almost no one of her own to grieve when she steps off the train at the cold end of England.
She has come to Blackmere House to catalogue the papers of a woman she never met: Honoria Blackmere, who left a decaying coastal manor, and everything in it, to a complete stranger. But the house is cold in ways the weather cannot explain. The housekeeper still lays two cups at her table for a woman fifty-two years dead. And the disinherited son who guards the gate plainly wishes Iris had never come.
Then, behind a window-seat, Iris finds them. They are the sealed farewell letters of Margot Blackmere, the young wife who ran away one storm-black night in 1974 and was never seen again.
Except Iris reads paper for a living. And these letters are lies, forged in a careful, practised hand by someone who needed the world to believe a woman left when she did not.
As the cold tightens and a buyer's deadline bears down, Iris must read the truth out of fifty-two years of silence: who Margot really was, the lie that was built to bury her, and why a benefactor she never met chose her, by name, to clear a dead woman's name at last.
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Book details
- Series
- The Blackmere Letters, Book One
- Genre
- Gothic romance mystery, slow-burn and closed-door
- Format
- Ebook (EPUB) in English
- Price
- $2.99, or local currency outside the United States
- Where
- Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and other ebook stores, and library apps
- ISBN
- 9798237229325
Questions readers ask
Is this the first book in the series?
Yes. The Last Letter from Blackmere House is Book One of The Blackmere Letters, and it is where Iris Cole first comes to Blackmere House.
How much romance is there, and is it explicit?
Slow-burn and closed-door. The romance between Iris and Julian Blackmere begins here and has no explicit content.
Is it a horror novel?
It is atmospheric rather than frightening. There is no gore, and the house's haunting is left for you to judge.
Where can I buy it, and how much is it?
The ebook is $2.99 at Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and other ebook stores, and libraries can offer it through OverDrive, cloudLibrary and BorrowBox. Stores outside the United States show the price in local currency.
Was it written with AI?
Written with the assistance of AI tools and edited by the author.
More in The Blackmere Letters
- The Drowned Bells of Saltmarsh (Book Two)
- The Black Seal of Blackmere Point (Book Three)