Some books begin with a battle.
Some begin with a prophecy.
The Victorian Door begins with four women buying an old Queen Anne mansion in Wales and deciding it would make a perfectly reasonable bed-and-breakfast.
This goes about as sensibly as you might expect.
The Victorian Door, my newest cosy fantasy, will be released November 1, 2026, and the Kindle edition is now available for preorder.
The story follows Saoirse Ó Broin, Luna Lightwood, Emmy Lightwood, and Areic Bijoue, four friends who take an aging Victorian mansion and begin turning it into something of their own: an inn, bookshop, café and bakery, with craft rooms tucked among the rest.
At first, most of their problems are wonderfully ordinary ones.
Renovations. Guests. Old rooms. Strange architectural choices. A house that occasionally seems to have opinions about what they are doing.
And doors.
Quite a few doors, actually.
Most are exactly where a sensible door ought to be.
One isn't.
Hidden away in the attic is an old Victorian door that doesn't quite belong. Beyond it lies something the women were never expecting to find, and a connection between their new home and Faerie that has existed far longer than any of them knew.
The magic in this story doesn't arrive waving a flag and announcing itself.
It creeps in through old traditions, hawthorn trees, carved protections, forgotten paths, odd little coincidences, and the growing suspicion that the house understands considerably more than its owners do.
There is Irish and Welsh folklore woven throughout the story, along with friendship, found family, good food, books, an opinionated old house, a black kitten with absolutely no respect for boundaries, and the sort of magic that feels as though it might have been hiding beside the ordinary world all along.
At its heart, though, The Victorian Door is about making a home.
Sometimes that means restoring an old house.
Sometimes it means finding the people who belong inside it.
And sometimes it means opening a door.
The Victorian Door releases November 1, 2026.
Kindle: $4.99
Paperback: $19.99
I hope you'll come visit the inn.
Just be careful which doors you open.
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