The Mourning Ring
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Mystery. Intrigue. Dark drama. Suspense. Romance... a tight, compelling, gut-wrenching saga." - MariahMildee
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The Mourning Ring is an absolute triumph - atmospheric, clever, unsettling, and utterly impossible to put down." - Willow Grimm ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I'd never encountered this before: an author seamlessly blending spectral spirits of the past with modern elements." - Olivia WrightSome secrets are buried. Some are sealed in gold. Some have been waiting eighty years to be found.
When author Coby McTavish brings his family to the brooding clifftop halls of Serpent's Manor for the birth of his child, he expects chaos. He gets considerably more.
A midwife who is not what she seems. A black cat that appears from nowhere and answers to no one. A booming voice inside his head that knows things it has no right to know. And on the rocks far below the cliff's edge, discovered by accident and unearthed by a drone in the hands of a teenage boy, the skeletal remains of a young woman - along with a small, ornate, gilded ring that has been waiting in the darkness since the last year of the Second World War.
The ring carries an inscription. A date. A hidden compartment. And a message so dangerous that its owner died before she could deliver it.
As a killer stalks the manor's corridors, a detective with blue eyes and impeccable timing arrives to complicate everything, and the ghosts of Grimloch grow restless in ways that cannot be explained and cannot be ignored, Coby finds himself drawn into a mystery that reaches from the present all the way back to the blackouts and betrayals of 1945 - and to a woman named Daisy, who has been trying to tell him something for a very long time.
The Mourning Ring is the fifth instalment in The McTavish Chronicles - a gothic mystery series soaked in Scottish atmosphere, dark humour, family chaos, and the persistent, unsettling sense that the dead are never quite as gone as we would like them to be.
Some rings are given in love. Some are given in warning. This one was given by a ghost.
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Iwan Ross writes atmospheric supernatural suspense infused with mystery, emotion, and dark intrigue.
His stories blend gothic settings, unsettling secrets, and deeply human characters-where the past refuses to stay buried and every truth comes at a cost.
Growing up, books became both refuge and compass, shaping the haunting, character-driven worlds he writes today. His work often explores themes of survival, belonging, and the unseen forces that linger just beneath the surface of everyday life.
He is the author of, including, a darkly humorous gothic thriller set in the Scottish Highlands.
When not writing, Iwan works as a technical writer and lives with his wife, Marna, and their spirited Jack Russell, Benji.