The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

Her father left her a lighthouse. The lighthouse had been waiting for her.

Evelyn Hart is a restoration architect who keeps her life half-packed and her past at a distance. When a solicitor’s letter informs her that her estranged father has died and left her Penhaligon Light—a lighthouse on the Cornish coast she hasn’t set foot in since childhood—she tells herself it’s a practical matter. An estate to settle. A structure to assess. She doesn’t believe it for a moment.

The village of Penhaligon Bay has been watching the Hart family for generations. A local historian arrives with seven years of notebooks and a pattern of disappearances that spirals, literally, toward the lighthouse. The keeper’s logbooks go back two hundred years and every one of them ends the same way. The blue glass pendant her father left behind grows warmer by the hour. And something in the lamp room already knows her name.

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter is a Gothic literary novel about what we inherit from the people who couldn’t protect us—the grief, the guilt, and the gifts we didn’t ask for. Evy Hart is not the kind of woman who believes in hauntings. She is the kind of woman who reads the load-bearing walls, maps the crack patterns, identifies the moment a structure has decided to fail.

She is about to meet something that has been studying her for far longer than she has been studying it.

Atmospheric British Gothic · Unreliable realities · Protagonists who weaponize competence against the supernatural · Family secrets with teeth · Cornish coastal dread.