Oakbound

The horse notices her first. The man takes a minute longer.

After the world watched her decades-long marriage disintegrate right on camera, Wren Baker comes to the South Carolina Lowcountry to bury her grandmother and sell the cottage.

Almost immediately, she starts noticing things. A circle of women with secrets far stranger than anyone will admit. An oak tree older than the country, on ground that men in expensive suits have quietly begun to measure. A herd of wild horses led by a golden stallion whose unusual blue eyes keep watching her from a distance.

Then there is Clyde Cooper, the rugged preserve manager who turns up at just the right moment and takes her swimming in the moonlight. Wren is certain she's seen those eyes before.

As a renowned journalist, Wren notices patterns that don't add up, and a great deal isn't adding up on Saltmarsh.

The tide is rising and an ancient bargain is coming due. Can Wren piece together the clues her grandmother left in time to save what she's starting to love?

OAKBOUND begins The Saltmarsh Circle, a slow burn shifter romance in the Gullah Geechee Lowcountry. Fated love, found family, small town secrets, and a man who is not what he seems.