Title Bound by Grace and Tide beta
By: Katelyn Lighthall
Bound by Grace and Tide is a character-driven romantasy steeped in Irish coastal folklore, family tension, and slow-burn intensity. Reign Monaghan returns home to her seaside village after years away, carrying guilt, grief, and a heritage she can’t outrun. Her mother is gone, her brother Eamon is raising a baby alone, and the village priest stirs fear with sermons about omens in the wind. Shadows cling to the cliffs, feathers are found wired in iron, and the church bell tolls wrong—as if warning of something only she can feel. Her arrival collides with the presence of Vale, a scarred outsider whispered about in pubs and condemned from the pulpit. He unsettles her with his heat and his gravity, tuning her dangerous gift into something steadier. But closeness comes at a cost: loyalty to her family, trust in her village, and the question of whether Vale is her anchor—or the storm that will pull her under.