The Blackbird & the Manor

A forgotten family manor. Generations of secrets. And a house that has been waiting for the Bellethorns to come home.

Hazel Bellethorn and her daughter Juniper have spent their lives in the small Lake Michigan town of Belle Cove, where their family's long-abandoned Victorian manor has stood quietly on the bluff for generations.

When they decide to renovate the old house and move home, they expect dust, repairs, and the challenge of bringing a forgotten family home back to life.

They don't expect the manor to begin revealing its secrets.

Hidden passages, sealed rooms, forgotten journals, and generations of Bellethorn family history slowly emerge as Hazel, Juniper, and their family uncover the lives of the women who came before them. The deeper they search, the clearer it becomes that Bellethorn Manor isn't simply an old house.

Some secrets were hidden for a reason.

And some legacies have been waiting generations to be remembered.

Set along the shores of Lake Michigan in the fictional town of Belle Cove, The Blackbird & the Manor is Book One of The Bellethorn Chronicles, an atmospheric family saga blending mystery, history, family relationships, an ancestral Victorian manor, and a touch of the unexplained.

Blackbirds always find their way home.