Cover of The Ache by Scotia Petkov

A Saint’s End Novel · Book One

The Ache

Sebastian’s Story

He was sent to make her leave. She’s the first thing he’s ever wanted to keep.

A steamy dark paranormal romance: an immortal who cannot feel, the one woman immune to him, and a town drowning in secrets.

Nora Calloway hasn’t set foot in Saint’s End since she was nine. Now her aunt is dead — an “accident” on a cliff road Maggie had driven for sixty years — and Nora has inherited a peeling blue house, forty years of journals, and a note hidden where only she would look: What do we do when we’re afraid, little bird?

Sebastian Harrow has been beautiful and charming for a hundred and fifty years, and felt none of it. His family rules the fog from the black manor on the bluff, and they want the Calloway girl gone before she finds what her aunt hid. Getting people to leave is what Sebastian does best. He can make anyone want anything.

Except her.

Nora’s blood is immune to his pull. Every instinct she owns screams to run from him. So why does she keep looking for the man behind those pale grey eyes? No one has looked in a century and a half. Something in him looks back.

The deeper she reads into her aunt’s hidden record, the closer she gets to the truth about the family on the hill. Sebastian is running out of time to make an impossible choice: the woman who makes him feel, or the family that has already buried one Calloway this year.

The Ache is Book One of Saint’s End: forbidden, possessive, slow-burn love in a gothic coastal town where forever is a long time to feel nothing. A complete love story. The mystery of Saint’s End is only beginning.

Content note: This is a dark romance containing grief, death, and predatory supernatural themes. Full content guidance inside.

Coming to Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

Series
Saint’s End, Book One
Genre
Dark paranormal romance
Status
Coming 2026

From the book

What do we do when we’re afraid, little bird?

No one has looked in a century and a half. Something in him looks back.


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