The House of Salt and Ash: The North Pointe Chronicles - Book 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798198247093)

When Jonah Garrison returns to the coast he once abandoned, he intends only to bury the dead, settle what remains, and leave the old country to its silences.

But some places do not release a man so easily.

At the edge of marsh and dark water stands North Pointe, an aging estate of warped timber, salt-stained halls, locked rooms, and memories no one in Salter's Cove has dared to speak aloud. The town watches from a distance. Doors close when Jonah passes. Names are lowered to whispers. Old sins move beneath the surface like something still alive beneath the mud.

What begins as a homecoming becomes a reckoning.

Jonah is forced to confront not only the house and the bloodline that shaped him, but the people left behind in the ruins of the Garrison name-men and women marked by secrets, silence, violence, faith, longing, and the desperate need to be seen as they truly are. In Salter's Cove, family is not always blood, love is not always safe, and inheritance is rarely a gift.

As Jonah digs deeper into North Pointe's history, he uncovers a legacy built on power, shame, betrayal, and buried truth. Every room seems to remember. Every field holds witness. Every relationship carries the weight of what was hidden, denied, or destroyed.

And the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes that coming home may not mean returning to who he was.

It may mean becoming the man he was never allowed to be.

Brooding, lyrical, and steeped in menace, The House of Salt and Ash is a Southern Gothic novel of family secrets, haunted loyalty, masculine grief, forbidden tenderness, buried history, and the terrible grace of coming home.

For readers who love atmospheric fiction, old houses, complicated families, emotional mystery, generational trauma, and characters fighting to reclaim their names, their stories, and their place in the world.

At North Pointe, nothing stays buried.

And some ghosts are not dead.