Three standalone horror romances. Available now.
He is never the danger.
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The Unquiet Trades · Book 1
He Is the Safe Place.
Oren Pell is nonhuman, and he can stop a worked sound before it reaches the thing hunting Wenlow.
Marla keeps Oren off the loud work because a shift’s held noise puts him down the following day. Oren wants the work, the cost, and his name on her sheet. As the pool closes over the town, the safest person in Wenlow may be the one she must place beside its loudest remaining job.
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The Unquiet Trades · Book 2
Something Keeps Her Hours. The Light Holds.
Something on Brennick Holm keeps the keeper's hours and has never once touched her.
Idris Keverne brings the stores to that rock, and loses the run for carrying her the one thing the office wanted kept off the water. The season shuts with him still on the rock, and whatever keeps her hours has no use for him.
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The Unquiet Trades · Book 3
The Print Is Hers. He Is Never the Danger.
Ada Stather sets a thin space where no line wants one, at the foot of a bill head, in the line nobody ever reads.
For weeks, public sheets have been going up in this town in her own setting, under her shop's imprint, and she set none of them. So she marks a job, and keeps the file copy back in her apron against the first rule of the house, to find out whether the work is being taken off paper years old or off paper that only just left her arms.
Joss Kelsey runs the machine. He has never once asked her how she knows, and standing where he stands is going to cost him.
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Start anywhere: each book is a complete romance with a new couple, a new trade, and a new haunting.
The Standing Fires · Book 1
A lime kiln that must not go out. New trade, same rule. He is never the danger.
September 23, 2026 · Kindle Unlimited
Nell Ferriday writes horror romance set among working trades. A salvage crew in a condemned town, a lighthouse keeper on a bare rock, a print shop with a house rule she breaks. The dread in her books is real, and it never comes from the one who loves her. Each story keeps one promise. The danger stays outside the door, the love stays inside it, and every book ends sealed.
These are horror novels. On the horror side a book may hold death, bodily harm, drowning, injury to working people, and sustained dread. On the romance side the door is open and the love interest is never the source of the horror. Full content notes for each book are printed in its front matter, before chapter one.
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