A Sisu Bay Novel
Paranormal romance on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, where the paper says one thing and the ground says another.
Book one
Kindle 19 November 2026 · Paperback 10 December 2026
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A Vampire Romance · Sisu Bay, Book One
Maren is forty-six, nineteen months a widow, and very good at finding out who really owns the land. She came to Sisu Bay, at the top of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, for six weeks of title work. Then the snow closed the road.
Out here it falls twenty feet a year. The town is kind to her and tells her nothing. Every morning her drive is already clear, and no one will say by whom.
Nick appears fifty. He has been in this county for more than a century, and what he owns is not the ground but everything underneath it. He is patient, courteous, and careful with his hands. There is one house in Sisu Bay he cannot enter, and she is sleeping in it. There is one place on her land he can — the sauna.
Two grown-ups. One long, dark winter. A line he swore he’d never cross, and something in the dark that is coming for her. Maren has stopped being careful. That makes her very dangerous to want.
Every Sisu Bay novel is one couple, start to finish, with a happy ending. No cliffhangers on the romance.
Where to start
One couple per book, start to finish, with a happy ending every time. Read them in order if you like the county to add up — but each one is a whole story, and nobody is left mid-romance at the end of a volume.
He plows her road at three in the morning and never knocks.She's started waiting up.
Maren is forty-six, nineteen months a widow, and very good at finding out who really owns the land. She came to Sisu Bay, at the top of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, for six weeks of title work. Then the snow closed the road. Out here it falls twenty feet a year. The town is kind to her and tells her nothing. Every morning her drive is already clear, and no one will say by whom.
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Read the full descriptionShe bought a hotel she never saw.He cannot come in until she asks.
Colleen Rafferty ran her husband's hotels for twenty years. When he kept them, she took her half of the money and bought the cheapest inn in Michigan without looking at the pictures. Somebody starts fixing it at night and leaving no note, and the man doing it will not come through her door unless she asks him in.
Expected January 2027
Read the full descriptionOne couple.A happy ending.
The third Sisu Bay novel. Its story is announced when the book is planned.
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Read the full descriptionOne couple.A happy ending.
The fourth Sisu Bay novel. Its story is announced when the book is planned.
To come
Read the full descriptionOne couple.A happy ending.
The fifth Sisu Bay novel. Its story is announced when the book is planned.
To come
Read the full descriptionOne couple.A happy ending.
The sixth Sisu Bay novel. Its story is announced when the book is planned.
To come
Read the full descriptionThe Sisu Bay record
The county records a name the federal government has never printed. That is the first strange thing about Sisu Bay, and it is a paperwork problem before it is anything else.
Not on the quad sheet
Sisu Bay is a name the county uses in every instrument it records and the federal government has never once printed. It is not on the quadrangle. It is not in the gazetteer. The Postal Service calls the place Eagle Harbor.
Grey-black, forty feet deep in places
A stamp mill put thirty years of crushed rock into the water and the lake handed most of it back. What is on that shore is mill tailings — sharp, grey-black, and nothing grows in it.
Three stories, no verdict
There is a boat that went into the ice while men stood on the shore all night with lanterns so it would have something to steer at.
Below the ordinary high-water mark
Land descriptions stop at the ordinary high-water mark, the way descriptions do. Past that line the ground belongs to the State and is held for everybody.
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Not a free book. A document out of the Sisu Bay record — a parish register, a mining charter, the carbon of a purchase offer — and the research underneath the novels, most of which never reaches the page. None of it appears in any of the books. It is written for the list.