The year is 1816. Napoleon has fallen. And summer never came. The ash still hangs in the air over Europe when Conall Maguire loses everything—his land, his future, and the people he would have died to protect. What begins as an eviction on a Donegal hillside becomes something far stranger: a dangerous passage through the contested waters of the Mediterranean, into a world of ancient enmities, shifting allegiances, and a trade in human lives that powerful men on every shore call commerce. From the wind-bitten wilds of Donegal to the fog-bound French coast to the spice-thickened air of labyrinthine Ottoman ports, Maguire moves through a landscape of breathtaking beauty and quiet brutality—a man out of place in every world he enters, fluent only in grief and a patient, implacable rage. Maguire’s only hope is to unravel a tangled web of murder, human trafficking, and dark alliances before the slave market swallows the people he loves forever. Black as the Sea at Night is an epic novel of empire and its wreckage: the violence that treaties make polite, the lives that fall through the cracks between civilizations. A sweeping tale of betrayal, survival, and vengeance, Black as the Sea at Night will leave you breathless to the last page.
Behind the gates, nothing is as it seems. When Detective Tim Riley is called to a riverside park where a beautiful, affluent woman lies dead—an apparent poisoning, five thousand dollars untouched in her purse—he knows this is no ordinary overdose. The victim is Julie Starkoff, a thirty-year-old Russian-born interior designer and resident of Lakeshore Heights, the gated enclave above Vancouver Lake where the lawns are immaculate, the marriages complicated, and the secrets run deep. At the other end of the neighborhood lives the Kerrigan family—Celeste, ambitious and volatile; Graham, a former intelligence operative now navigating the subtle indignities of stay-at-home fatherhood for their two children, Emma, 13, and Justin, 10. Their life gleams with suburban perfection. It’s a lie. Meanwhile, Phaedra Voss—sharp, self-made, ruthless in ways she’ll never admit—climbs the corporate ladder at Beaumont Sinclair one calculated risk at a time. A stolen glance at the branch president’s inbox exposes a sweeping financial conspiracy, forcing her to decide how far she’s willing to go—and whose loyalty she can afford. Her lover, Beaumont’s top broker Derek Thurman, is murdered in a seedy corner of downtown Vancouver, and the political threads running through it reach further than anyone imagined. Another killing makes clear the fallout is anything but contained. From the fog-shrouded banks of the Columbia River to the gleaming kitchens of the nouveau riche, Lakeshore Heights weaves a noir thriller of infidelity, obsession, financial crime, psychological warfare, and a marriage coming apart at the seams. With an ex-spy at its center, a killer on the loose, and a neighborhood full of people who have mastered the art of looking innocent, Ross Trevelyan’s novel asks the question that haunts every perfect façade: What does a man owe the truth—when the truth would destroy everything he loves.
WIPs coming in 2026-27:
