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1887
He was meant to come home.
In 1887, Kai comes ashore in Portsmouth expecting nothing more than wine, warmth, and a few nights of forgettable pleasure before the Sea Witch sails for Australia.
Then he meets Olivia.
What begins as flirtation becomes something far more tenderness, trust, and a love that takes root with terrifying speed. For the first time in his life, Kai wants more than the next port, the next voyage, the next passing hunger. He wants a future. He wants Olivia. And before he leaves, he promises he will come back to her.
But the sea has other plans.
When the Sea Witch goes down off Moreton Bay, Kai is taken not only by the storm, but by something far older and far more merciless lurking beneath the water. Bound to darkness, hunger, and the place that will one day become the Box, he endures year after year as the man he was is slowly stripped away.
Yet even after decades of cruelty and silence, some part of him still remembers the woman he lost.
And when a lonely young caretaker named Liv steps into the Box more than a century later, something buried deep in Kai begins to wake.
1887 is the haunting, heartbreaking origin story behind The Box. A dark paranormal romance and tragic origin story about love, loss, corruption, and the promise that refused to die.
In 1887, Kai comes ashore in Portsmouth expecting nothing more than wine, warmth, and a few nights of forgettable pleasure before the Sea Witch sails for Australia.
Then he meets Olivia.
What begins as flirtation becomes something far more tenderness, trust, and a love that takes root with terrifying speed. For the first time in his life, Kai wants more than the next port, the next voyage, the next passing hunger. He wants a future. He wants Olivia. And before he leaves, he promises he will come back to her.
But the sea has other plans.
When the Sea Witch goes down off Moreton Bay, Kai is taken not only by the storm, but by something far older and far more merciless lurking beneath the water. Bound to darkness, hunger, and the place that will one day become the Box, he endures year after year as the man he was is slowly stripped away.
Yet even after decades of cruelty and silence, some part of him still remembers the woman he lost.
And when a lonely young caretaker named Liv steps into the Box more than a century later, something buried deep in Kai begins to wake.
1887 is the haunting, heartbreaking origin story behind The Box. A dark paranormal romance and tragic origin story about love, loss, corruption, and the promise that refused to die.
64 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 29, 2026
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