threads of wyrd
The eccentric charm of Our Flag Means Death and The Addams Family flirts with Victorian supernaturalism in this queer gothic romance series.
In a seaside pub where high strangeness reigns, a seer finds his match.
Paul Apollyon sees the future, yet didn’t anticipate Alastair Gow asking if he can hide in the cellar. Stunned, Paul says yes, and they bond over their dislike of Mr. Sykes, a local drunkard who found Alastair in his daughter’s bedroom and chased him right through Cromer.
Muriel Sykes has no interest in Alastair, apart from having him deliver letters to Abigail. She’s trying to run away with her lover, not entertain a newcomer laced with tattoos and an alluring air of danger.
Ever a romantic, Paul agrees to help Alastair help Muriel. Fate seems to have delivered him a husband in the bargain, but nobody could have predicted any of this.
The Kraken and The Canary is the first novella of the Threads of Wyrd series: an interconnected gothic romance full of yearning, Victorian folk horror, gently droll wit, and hope with teeth.
Happily ever after isn’t meant to be so cloak and dagger.
Marital bliss is fading for reformed criminal Alastair Gow and pub owner Paul Apollyon. It starts with clandestine letters, some words of caution from Alastair’s late ex-wife, and then there’s a dead crow on the pub’s front door.
Matters escalate into a mad search for misplaced smugglers’ loot. One of Alastair’s old peers wants payback for the past. Far less obvious, and much more unsettling: who goaded him into collecting it?
The man behind this chaos wants Alastair for himself, and his obsession could undo even the most fateful of ties.
Of Flint and Fortune is the second book of the Threads of Wyrd series: an interconnected gothic romance full of yearning, Victorian folk horror, gently droll wit, and hope with teeth.
Some men might not deserve their redemption.
Wealthy second son Bertie Calder receives almost everything he wants, as long as he keeps up appearances. If he’s discreet, he’s found can get up to any mischief, like having Alastair Gow in his bed.
At present, Alastair is enamored with a nobody. This just won’t do at all, so Bertie colludes with Alastair’s former associate Will Lucas to ensure Paul Apollyon won’t remain a problem.
Lucas grew up in criminal circles where survival meant denying softer feelings, even those he’s nursed for Bertie since boyhood. But they might be all that can save Paul from Bertie, and Bertie from himself.
He’s done worse than manipulate old friends. If nobody stops him, he’s about to indulge in it again.
Of Valentines and Visions is the third book of the Threads of Wyrd series: an interconnected gothic romance full of yearning, Victorian folk horror, gently droll wit, and hope with teeth.
A selkie retelling that refuses to behave as expected.
Overwhelmed by his ability to sense auras and distressed by his uncle’s grief for a lover who left years ago, Tom Apollyon tries to drown himself one night. It seems better than lingering only to risk heartbreak.
Theo Harper isn’t expecting to pull a troubled local from the frigid North Sea on a beach walk. Hardly the most difficult feat for a selkie, his earnest deed sparks a connection that demands to be explored.
Neither Tom nor Theo is daunted until Theo’s skin, which can definitely be used to entrap or kill him, goes missing. To build the future they want, they have to get it back.
Like Silk Breathing is the fourth book of the Threads of Wyrd series: an interconnected gothic romance infused with yearning, Victorian folk horror, gently droll wit, and hope with teeth. (Readers can also start here, finish The Only Story and Unfair Winds, then start again with The Kraken and The Canary.)
Love is no less tenacious than pickpockets and ghosts.
After David Mills learns his ex-lover is a selkie, his beliefs start to crack until a roguish stranger finishes shattering his orderly world.
Lennie Campling, a pickpocket who sees the future, targets David on the street. Almost immediately, though, he returns the stolen effects. Then he breaks into David’s house. Mixed signals indeed, but at least it’s endearing.
After family drama puts Lennie in danger, David knows where to go. The Apollyons’ pub welcomes misfits, and Paul Apollyon assures Lennie he’ll be safe. Paul just doesn’t understand how safe: David’s continued presence allows a sorely missed resident to return, and death hasn’t cooled his opinion of bullies.
The Only Story is the fifth book of the Threads of Wyrd series: an interconnected gothic romance infused with yearning, Victorian folk horror, gently droll wit, and hope with teeth.
Maurice meets Blithe Spirit in this haunting series conclusion.
When Paul Apollyon wants to visit Alastair Gow’s grave for the first time, Tom finds their usual roles reversed: his uncle never makes drunk decisions. Not that Paul knows it, closure is at home—and those best suited to facilitating it are regulars. They’re friends, really. Family, even.
David Mills, Lennie Campling, and Theo Harper are almost at their wits’ end when the Apollyons are in Edinburgh. With hidden truths and murderous plans at play, promises and confidences may not be kept, and happiness may be fleeting.
But how hard can it really be to reunite a jaded seer with his husband’s impatient ghost?
Unfair Winds is the final book of the Threads of Wyrd series: an interconnected gothic romance infused with yearning, Victorian folk horror, gently droll wit, and hope with teeth.