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Elm Brook Manor

A Gothic Ghost Mystery of Secrets, Curses, and Revenge
Book #1 from the series: The Haunted Highlands Series

“Gripping from the start to the end… a perfect balance between atmosphere and momentum.”

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A town of quiet beauty. A manor filled with secrets.

Serenity Falls is a town of quiet beauty and long memories — and Elm Brook Manor is its darkest secret.

Seeking refuge from his former life, author Coby McTavish...

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The Haunting of Serpent’s Manor

A Gothic Paranormal Mystery
Book #2 from the series: The Haunted Highlands Series

The Haunting of Serpent’s Manor

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In the shadowed heart of the Scottish Highlands lies Serpent’s Manor, a place where the past lingers like a ghostly shroud.
When Coby McTavish and his family arrive at the imposing manor, they are unprepared for the eerie embrace that awaits them. The grand estate, with...

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Keepers Of The Lighthouse

A Gothic Mystery of Secrets, Shadows, and the Sea
Book #3 from the series: The Haunted Highlands Series

“Compelling… atmospheric… and full of intrigue, mystery, and paranormal tension.”

On Tempest Island, some secrets were never meant to resurface.

Coby McTavish returns to his ancestral island with Gracie and their newborn child, expecting a quiet inheritance. Instead, he is drawn into the shadowed legacy of Hotel Luminara — and the looming...

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Serenity Falls

A Scottish Gothic Mystery Thriller
Book #4 from the series: The Haunted Highlands Series

“A fresh thrill… delivers suspense and wit in Scottish gothic.”

Wealth can buy many things.
Peace isn’t one of them.

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When reclusive author Coby McTavish inherits the grand Sinclair estate, he believes his troubled past is finally behind him. But the crumbling castle of Serenity Falls hides more than...

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The Mourning Ring

A Scottish Gothic Mystery of Shadows, Secrets, and the Dead
Book #5 from the series: The Haunted Highlands Series

MY CURRENT #1 BESTSELLING NOVEL

My most popular title by recent sales, The Mourning Ring blends Scottish Gothic mystery, wartime secrets and supernatural suspense.

"Mystery. Intrigue. Dark drama. Suspense. Romance... a tight, compelling, gut-wrenching saga." — Willow Grimm.

Available in eBook, Paperback & Hardcover. Audiobook coming soon.

Some...

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One for Sorrow

A Haunted Highlands Mystery
Book #6 from the series: The Haunted Highlands Series

One for sorrow, two for fate…

A lone magpie perches on a headstone at Serpent's Manor, where the dead keep their secrets — and a grandfather clock counts the hours toward a reckoning.


Coby McTavish has returned to the cliff-top estate, burdened by a debt he can no longer ignore: he must reveal the truth about Daisy to the daughter who never knew...

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The Highlands University of Ghostology

A Darkly Comic Scottish Ghost Mystery
Book #1 from the series: The Highlands University of Ghostology

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Britain is losing its ghosts.

Jane Seymour has vanished from Hampton Court. Earl Beardie has abandoned his eternal card game with the Devil. Tourism is collapsing, the Crown is panicking, and nobody can explain where the dead have gone.

Retired detective Coby McTavish has troubles closer to...

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The Silent Choir

A Darkly Comic Tudor Ghost Mystery
Book #2 from the series: The Highlands University of Ghostology

"Funny, spooky, wonderfully British, and with an ending that left me impatient for book three!" — Anna V.

Forty voices. Not one of them singing.

Coby McTavish has a lectern, a title, and two hundred students who assume he knows what he's doing. What he does not have is an explanation for Thomas Tallis — five centuries dead, composer to four...

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The Ancient Lie

A Darkly Comic Scottish Ghost Mystery
Book #3 from the series: The Highlands University of Ghostology

Death did them part. Now he wants her back.

When the ghost of Henry VIII storms the Tower of London demanding his wife, the Vanguard needs help, and only one man has Anne Boleyn’s ear: Coby McTavish, retired detective, reluctant duke and lecturer at the Highlands University of Ghostology.

Anne has an errand for him in Paris: find what she signed...

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The Highlands University of Ghostology – The Complete Trilogy

Three Darkly Comic Scottish Ghost Mysteries

Britain is losing its ghosts.

Retired detective Coby McTavish thought his days of chasing shadows were over. Then a very peculiar university in the Scottish Highlands offered him a teaching post, and the spirits of Britain began vanishing from their haunts.

At the Highlands University of Ghostology, nothing is quite what it seems. A smiling...

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The Haunted Highlands Series—Volume One

Volume One — The Complete McTavish Chronicles (Books 1-3)

Three haunted places. One unfolding truth. $6.99 Now $4.99

The complete gothic trilogy — in one immersive volume.

Set deep within the mist-laden peaks and windswept shores of the Scottish Highlands, The Haunted Highlands Series draws you into a world where:

  • old houses remember
  • guilt lingers
  • and the past refuses to stay buried

Across three...

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The Haunted Highlands Series—Volume Two

Volume Two — The Complete McTavish Chronicles (Books 4–6)

The Complete McTavish Chronicles (Books 4–6)

Three complete Scottish Gothic mysteries.

Three haunting journeys into the unknown.

The mysteries surrounding the McTavish family are far from over.

In the remote Scottish Highlands, ancient estates conceal deadly secrets, forgotten tragedies refuse to rest, and every investigation draws Coby McTavish...

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The McTavish Chronicles: The Haunted Highlands Series, Books 1–6

Six Haunting Mysteries. One Unforgettable Journey.

Six haunted houses. Six buried secrets. One man who can’t stop listening to the dead.

When former detective turned writer Coby McTavish moves to the Scottish Highlands for a quieter life, he finds something else entirely: grand old houses that remember everything, ghosts who refuse to rest, and crimes the living worked very hard to bury.

The...

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The Sandman’s Mark

He does not chase. He Whispers.

Chloe should be safe in her bed.
But something waits for her when she sleeps.

When Chloe and her parents move into Elm Brook Manor, strange things begin to happen. Children’s voices echo through empty corridors. Shadows linger where they shouldn’t. And at night, a presence slips quietly into Chloe’s dreams—watching, waiting, leaving behind the...

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Hemlock Manor

A Gothic Mystery in Shadowbrook

Sixteen-year-old Chloe has already lost everything that matters.

So when she is adopted by the strange and secretive Nightshade family and taken to the isolated coastal town of Shadowbrook, she hopes only for a fresh start. Instead, she finds whispers of vanished teenagers, violent storms that arrive without warning, and a crumbling mansion...

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Plastic Burlesque

A Dystopian Masquerade Thriller

“Electrifying… a wild ride of rebellion, intrigue, and high-stakes deception.”

“I couldn’t put it down… a dazzling dystopian tale with unforgettable characters.”

“Gripping, immersive, and impossible to ignore.”

A masked city. A quiet rebellion. A truth too dangerous for the spotlight.

In Suburbia, the harvesters come without warning. They take what...

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Growing Slowly Nowhere

When nowhere was home, survival became a way of life

"A riveting and unforgettable true story, told with urgency, honesty, and quiet determination." — Mary-Lisa Russo

"A vivid, hopeful memoir that reveals painful truths with charm, insight, and remarkable restraint." — Duane Simolke

"Brutally honest, deeply moving, and impossible to put down — a memoir that demands to be read more than once." —...

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T Minus Sixty

A Survival Thriller

He has sixty minutes to escape.
At zero, nothing survives.

Eddy Wright wakes up buried beneath a condemned building, battered, disoriented, and trapped in total darkness. A mechanical voice echoes through the concrete basement, counting down the final moments before demolition.

With less than an hour to live, Eddy must fight his way through...

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WHERE THE MUSIC STOPS

A Haunted Highlands Prequel to Elm Brook Manor

Before the ghost. Before the manor. Before the ball.

Josephine was fourteen when she lost everything — and found, in a Montmartre cellar cabaret, the only family she would ever choose for herself. Vivienne taught her to dance like she meant it. Jane taught her what a person could survive. Together, the three of them became a name whispered up and...

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