The House at Mermaid's Cove

In April 1943, a young woman named Alice washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. She bears the marks of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat and is discovered by Viscount Jack Trewella, who questions whether she is a prisoner of war or a spy. Alice asks Jack to keep a secret that creates an unexpected bond between them. With her true identity concealed, Alice sees an opportunity to reinvent herself. As she develops feelings for Jack, she learns he harbors secrets of his own—secrets connected to a local legend about a mermaid that supposedly draws men into the sea's depths. Set against the backdrop of World War II on the English coast, the novel explores whether two strangers burdened by lost love and difficult memories can release their pasts or must confront them, regardless of the consequences.