A series of twelve
The Trevelyn Cottage Chronicles
The Trevelyn Cottage Chronicles
The Shadow at the Door
Book Twelve
A Haunting, Tender Fantasy of Grief, a Sentient Cornish Cottage, and the Imposter at the Door
Three weeks after Meredith Trevelyn lost the mentor she loved, she opened her cottage door and found him standing on the threshold, wearing the smile he kept for strangers, and she knew in one held breath that something patient and hungry had come to feed on her grief. It had studied his face for a year, and it never learned his laugh.
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It wore his face. She knew his laugh. The door stays hers.
About this story
The shadow has waited for mourning to weaken her. It wears the faces of everyone she has lost, and it wants the sentient Cornish cottage she is sworn to guard, the living threshold between worlds that only a Trevelyn can hold. If grief opens a single crack in her, the threshold falls with it.
She has one afternoon, one door, and the only instrument that has never failed her: she paid attention to the ones she loved.
The shadow spent a year learning her grief. She spent a lifetime learning him.
For readers of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Story Collector, and for anyone who treasures the fierce tenderness of A Man Called Ove.
Other doors in the cottage
Each story stands alone. Read in order and the cottage makes a different kind of sense.
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