Haunted Halls & Enchanted Estates

Gothic romances, magical manor houses, and country estates filled with ghosts, secrets, and supernatural intrigue

Step through the door of a crumbling abbey, a sentient seaside house, or a manor with a curse laced into its very foundations. This collection gathers gothic romances where the house is never just a backdrop — it’s haunted, cursed, magically alive, or hiding a secret older than the family that inherited it. Expect reluctant heirs, secretive magicians, faerie bargains gone wrong, and the mysterious strangers who know exactly what’s lurking in the walls, all wrapped up in slow-burn romance.

Spanning Regency ballrooms, Victorian moors, Edwardian estates, and one steampunk-Gothic manor with a werewolf problem, these stories are for readers who want their romance tangled up with real stakes: family curses, ghosts who won’t move on, and houses that occasionally try to kill their owners.

Wormwood Abbey by Christina Baehr

Victorian clergyman’s daughter Edith Worms is stunned when a mythical salamander tumbles into her lap, and soon after, a letter from estranged relatives sweeps her family away to crumbling Wormwood Abbey in the Yorkshire wilds. There she meets a tall, dark, and “entirely too handsome” neighbor named Drake who seems oddly reluctant to let her leave. Amazon | Kobo | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble

Mistletoe and Mireworth by Tilly Wallace

As the family gathers at Mireworth for their first Christmas together, Hannah refuses to let the house keep its secrets any longer. She sets out to uncover why Wycliff’s ancestor sealed away an old tower, and what hold a shadow mage once had over his bloodline, before the holiday is through. A closing novella to the Manners and Monsters series, best read after the main six books. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books |Apple Books | Barnes & Noble

Haunting Miss Trentwood by Belinda Kroll

Resigned to spinsterhood after inheriting her family’s manor, Mary is horrified when her father’s ghost starts haunting her hallways. When Alexander Hartwell arrives, Mary mistakes him for her father’s solicitor, not realizing he’s actually hunting a blackmailer hiding somewhere in her house, all while her ghostly father takes it upon himself to start matchmaking. Amazon | Kobo | Apple Books | Google Books | Barnes & Noble

A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

As a child, Bronwyn Dale found a time-slip in Thorne Manor that let her visit the 19th century, though no one believed her; decades later she inherits the haunted moorland estate and finds the slip still active. Reunited in the past with her childhood sweetheart William Thorne, she must solve a historical murder before she risks being trapped permanently in the wrong era. Amazon | Kobo | Apple Books | Google Books | Barnes & Noble

The Baron’s Demons by Erin Elle

Desperate to escape an abusive father, Julia agrees to marry Gabriel Arevale, Baron of the remote castle estate Deringham. Gabriel won’t speak of his past, keeps her at arm’s length despite mutual attraction, and survives a fatal wound, all while dark secrets and real monsters close in around the estate. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble

The Secret of Drulea Cottage by Claire Kohler

Briony Fairborn has little hope of finding a husband after her mother’s death. When a storm wrecks a ship off the coast, she takes in the injured, foreign merchant Santiago Mendes, and Briony finds she can’t ignore that he’s hiding something — something tangled up in local selkie folklore and old secrets threatening the whole village. Amazon | Kobo | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A bureaucratic mix-up leaves the non-magical Sir Robin Blyth cursed and appointed as the government’s new magical liaison, forcing him to seek help from Edwin Courcey, a prickly magician from a cold elite family. Together they travel to Blackford House, a hidden Edwardian manor riddled with deadly wards, blood curses, and hedge mazes. Amazon