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The Rum Runner: The Legend of Captain John Stewart
Caroline came to steal his secrets.
But he stole her heart.
Now the house wants to kill her,
the past wants him back,
and only the future can set things right.
When Case Pharmaceuticals’ investigator Caroline Oliver braves an approaching hurricane to infiltrate a decaying estate on the rocky Maine coast, she expects secrets. Her employer believes the mansion holds the key to eternal life. Instead, it's a doorway to death.
It is also the door to Edward Kelly.
Kelly, rumored to be the infamous rum runner Captain John Stewart, is now a billionaire businessman of impossible age. Beautiful, haunted, and hiding a century-old curse the world was never meant to know.
In the 1920s, Prohibition turned the New England coast into a hunting ground. Smugglers slipped across black waters, lawmen lay in wait, and those caught in between risked everything.
When Ruth Wilson took work as a private nurse for Captain John Stewart, she came to heal the living. Instead, the coast gave her a man the sea refused to drown.
Now the house they built is alive.
Lonely.
Vengeful.
And it remembers every scream.
Caroline’s arrival at the hundred-year-old mansion reveals long-buried secrets, an undying love, a house corrupted by betrayal, and a destiny waiting to be fulfilled.
To survive, Caroline and Edward must face a power born in dangerous waters, a house possessed by the evils of its past, a pharmaceutical company that will stop at nothing, and a choice between mortality and eternity.
Because some storms do not end with the water.
Some follow a man ashore and wait for him in the dark.
And some loves are not lost.
They return when the world needs them most.
A gothic romance with strong horror and fantasy elements, the Cliff House Trilogy weaves supernatural mystery, tragic history, and an enduring love across dual timelines spanning more than a century.
This definitive omnibus edition brings together all three novels, telling the complete story of a haunted house that feeds on human desire, a powerful natural force binding generations together, and a love that may be the only force capable of breaking immortality’s curse. This three-volume edition presents the story as it was meant to be read.
For readers of Rebecca , The Haunting of Hill House , Outlander (the early books), and sweeping gothic romances with a sacred heart, comes the Cliff House Trilogy .
But he stole her heart.
Now the house wants to kill her,
the past wants him back,
and only the future can set things right.
When Case Pharmaceuticals’ investigator Caroline Oliver braves an approaching hurricane to infiltrate a decaying estate on the rocky Maine coast, she expects secrets. Her employer believes the mansion holds the key to eternal life. Instead, it's a doorway to death.
It is also the door to Edward Kelly.
Kelly, rumored to be the infamous rum runner Captain John Stewart, is now a billionaire businessman of impossible age. Beautiful, haunted, and hiding a century-old curse the world was never meant to know.
In the 1920s, Prohibition turned the New England coast into a hunting ground. Smugglers slipped across black waters, lawmen lay in wait, and those caught in between risked everything.
When Ruth Wilson took work as a private nurse for Captain John Stewart, she came to heal the living. Instead, the coast gave her a man the sea refused to drown.
Now the house they built is alive.
Lonely.
Vengeful.
And it remembers every scream.
Caroline’s arrival at the hundred-year-old mansion reveals long-buried secrets, an undying love, a house corrupted by betrayal, and a destiny waiting to be fulfilled.
To survive, Caroline and Edward must face a power born in dangerous waters, a house possessed by the evils of its past, a pharmaceutical company that will stop at nothing, and a choice between mortality and eternity.
Because some storms do not end with the water.
Some follow a man ashore and wait for him in the dark.
And some loves are not lost.
They return when the world needs them most.
A gothic romance with strong horror and fantasy elements, the Cliff House Trilogy weaves supernatural mystery, tragic history, and an enduring love across dual timelines spanning more than a century.
This definitive omnibus edition brings together all three novels, telling the complete story of a haunted house that feeds on human desire, a powerful natural force binding generations together, and a love that may be the only force capable of breaking immortality’s curse. This three-volume edition presents the story as it was meant to be read.
For readers of Rebecca , The Haunting of Hill House , Outlander (the early books), and sweeping gothic romances with a sacred heart, comes the Cliff House Trilogy .
452 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 10, 2025
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