The Blackwood Journals: St Kilda. The Blackwood Journals, #3

The Blackwood Journals: St KildaSome islands remember. This one hungers. When Dr Jonathan Blackwood receives a desperate letter from his former colleague on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, he knows the journey will cost him. What he doesn't know is that Eleanor, the woman he loves, carries secrets of her own, secrets the island has been waiting decades to claim. St Kilda is a place where fog doesn't lift, where mirrors show futures instead of reflections, and where a name spoken aloud might belong to someone else by morning.
The villagers carve spirals into their flesh. A bell tolls from a tower that should be empty. And beneath the chapel stones, something ancient is learning to breathe. Eleanor came seeking answers about her lost sister Margaret. Instead, she finds herself forgetting, her voice, her memories, even Jonathan's face. Because the island doesn't just take, it replaces. And it has been preparing a bride. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Mexican Gothic, St Kilda is literary horror that crawls beneath the skin, where love becomes the only anchor against an island that remembers everything.
The choice between devotion and survival may already have been made."You were always here."For fans of: The Little Stranger, Mexican Gothic, The Turn of the ScrewWarnings: Atmospheric horror, body horror elements, psychological tension, themes of grief and identity loss