A Blood Red Heart. The Blood Red Trilogy, #1

For some women, the greatest act of resistance is survival. Legend tells that every five hundred years, west of the Pennine Mountains, the Beloved is born - a woman chosen to bring balance to the secret world that exists alongside our own. The Beloved has now come again; but this time she has been born on the wrong side of the mountains. Her fate is not to bring peace, but storm - and blood. Lonely, exhausted and carrying a dark secret, Dr Charlie Hart can't remember her past - but it refuses to forget her.
Chance brings Charlie to Rowans Holt, an ancient house owned by brilliant recluse Sally Marshall, where she finds unexpected friendship and refuge. But when the manipulative Marcus Rosendale threatens to destroy everything, Charlie's secret awakens - and she learns the heart-rending cost true magic demands. Woven with Northern mythology, complex female characters and the power of female friendship, A Blood Red Heart is the first book in the Blood Red Trilogy: a modern Gothic fantasy of magical tribes and two extraordinary families - divided by the Pennine Mountains and a thousand years of feuding.
Perfect for readers of Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy and Sara Water's Gothic fiction, A Blood Red Heart intricately builds a rich world of ancient Magic and modern conflicts; a landscape redolent with atmosphere, psychological depth and Northern England's dark and blood-soaked history.