Available on Kindle https://amzn.eu/d/8Bst3rH
After the man at their centre dies, those left behind remain suspended, the world pausing as they wrestle with grief, longing, and unfinished business. Each; Annabel with her relentless spirit photography, Ada with her scientific experiments, Thomas and Wedgewood and their desperate séances, and the rest, driven by love, loyalty, or regret, tries in their own way to bring him back, or at least give meaning to loss that refuses to heal. What unfolds is a gothic mystery: the house becomes a liminal space between explanation and the uncanny, where obsessions strain the limits of reason and feeling.
Romantic entanglements, bittersweet, fierce, sometimes fractious—bind these men as much as any haunting. With science and superstition circling each other, and love walking the edge of grief, The Year Without a Summer is a tale where the supernatural is both metaphor and threat, and every attempt to reclaim the dead risks unraveling the living. It’s a story of obsession, connection, and the fine line between survival and surrender.