The Mortal Crystalline

Yorkshire, 1812. Lucien Varenne arrives in England posing as a French émigré. In truth, he is a three-thousand-year-old enforcer for the Crimson Court, sent to locate and assess the last surviving descendant of an ancient witch bloodline.

He finds Eliza Caven. Twenty-seven years old, a practical village governess, and a woman who sees the world with unnerving clarity. As they walk the frost-bitten moors, Lucien realises Eliza is not a threat to be managed, but the key to a forgotten covenant.

But the Crimson Court does not forgive — and Lucien must decide whether to maintain the cold certainty of his immortal existence, or risk everything for a mortal life he never believed possible.