A GOTHIC FANTASY PREQUEL & COMPLETE DUOLOGY

Cathedral of the Crows

The cathedral remembers.

Every prayer. Every sin. Every debt. Across a prequel, two novels, and more than one lifetime, the crows bear witness.

THE CATHEDRAL

A love that refuses the last ending.

In this haunting historical dark fantasy, ancient cathedrals record what people would rather forget, and crows watch the blood return to stone.

Begin with the prequel When the Iron Rusts, then continue into Mirror Heart and Gilded Blood. Together they trace a story of desire, costly choices, and souls who find each other again across time.

Gothic romance
Reincarnation
Haunted cathedral
Complete duet

THE READING PATH

The books in order.

Start with the prequel for the earliest chapter of this story, then follow the complete duology through Mirror Heart and Gilded Blood.

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When the Iron Rusts
Prequel · Begin here
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Mirror Heart
Book one
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Gilded Blood
Book two · The story concludes

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BEFORE YOU READ

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When the Iron Rusts

Story elements: Forbidden love, a sacred grove, and a debt carried across lifetimes.
Who you’ll meet: Elowen guards the grove; Marius is a Roman centurion whose road threatens it.
Where and when: Roman Britain, two thousand years before Mirror Heart.
What’s at stake: A road through sacred ground brings duty and desire into conflict, with consequences that echo through the series.

Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

War, violence, death, and the destruction of sacred ground.

Mirror Heart

Story elements: Reincarnation, forbidden love, religious authority, and Gothic tragedy.
Who you’ll meet: Ambrose and Aveline are drawn together while an ancient power remembers their earlier lives.
Where and when: A cathedral built over an older sacred place; the story reaches across lifetimes.
What’s at stake: Their bond challenges the walls built by faith and authority, and carries a debt older than either of them.

Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Violence, death, religious oppression, and trauma. This first volume has a tragic ending; the author’s note says the series ending will not be tragic.

Gilded Blood

Story elements: Reincarnation, forbidden love, and a nun–soldier romance.
Who you’ll meet: Isolde, known as Sister Silence, tends the wounded soldier Aurelian.
Where and when: England during the Wars of the Roses, several lifetimes after Mirror Heart.
What’s at stake: An ancient power and an inherited debt return as Isolde and Aurelian try to break the pattern that binds them.

Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

War, violence, religious persecution, and the aftermath of trauma.

KEEP WANDERING

Other worlds await.

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Stay close to the dark.

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