Whisper of Nightmares: A Gothic Fantasy Romance Standalone

Every nightmare led to him.

Branded cursed after her father’s death, Euphemia has spent her life brewing ale, burying her grief, and praying her dangerous desires never take root. When her family’s apple tree erupts in violet flames and a trail of ashen hoofprints leads to her door, she knows it can only mean one thing: the nightmare horse has returned for her.

Euphemia accepts the only escape offered: a northern widow’s proposal of marriage to her reclusive son, Dagfinn Varinsson.

But her new husband is nowhere to be found by day...

Trapped in a dreamscape shaped by the old gods, Dagfinn has battled draugr and wandering spirits for so long he no longer remembers the man he used to be. Until the woman from his dreams finally appears. Somehow, he knows she is the only way home—even if he can’t remember why.

While Euphemia follows ghosts through the forgotten halls of Thorfell Manor, Dagfinn searches the ever-shifting dream realm for the memories stolen by his curse. As the boundary between dreaming and the waking world begins to fracture, they discover the nightmare imprisoning Dagfinn and the fire haunting Euphemia were never separate curses, but two halves of the same tragedy.

To save the man she’s beginning to love, Euphemia must embrace the fire everyone taught her to fear…or lose him—and herself—to the nightmare forever.

WHISPER OF NIGHTMARES is a gothic romantasy set against a Norse-inspired dream realm, featuring an arranged marriage, a cursed lord, dreamwalking, haunted castles, grief and healing, slow-burn romance, touch-her-and-die devotion, morally grey heroes, monstrous transformation, and a heroine forced to embrace forbidden power.