Echoes of the Arcane

In the summer of 1976, on the Cornish coast, a boy and a girl meet on their tenth birthdays. The moment they touch, something ancient awakens between them.

Finn and Mia know nothing about the force that binds them. They only know that from that day onwards, their lives will never be quite the same.

What begins as a nostalgic seaside summer and the tentative stirrings of friendship and first love slowly unravels into something far darker.

Beneath the beauty of the Cornish coast lies an inheritance neither of them understands, one shaped by memory, bloodlines, ancient magic and a curse that has been waiting for them.

As Finn and Mia grow from childhood into adolescence, strange events begin to expose fragments of a past that others would rather keep hidden. Memories can be taken. Secrets can pass from one generation to the next. And some forms of love come with a price.

How do you move forward when the past and those you love refuse to let you go?

Set against the wild and atmospheric coastline of Cornwall between 1976 and 1986, Echoes of the Arcane is the first book in the Granite Shore saga: a dark coming-of-age fantasy of first love, supernatural inheritance, lost memories and the dangerous forces that bind two people together.

Book One of the Granite Shore Saga

Published by Fleurdi Books. © Vivian Mayne 2026.

Warning: Contains themes of mental health, dark magic and conflict. Some scenes may be unsuitable for readers under 16.