island - Stories

Set in April 1848, the story opens on a fog‑bound morning in San Francisco’s Wentworth Hall, where Julian Wentworth wakes before dawn in a house ruled by discipline and silence. The estate is grand but cold, shaped by the rigid expectations of his powerful father. Julian moves through his morning with practiced composure, though a quiet tension lingers beneath everything — a sense that the household is shifting in ways he cannot yet name.

When a family vacation to a Caribbean resort is interrupted by a cambion toddler with separation anxiety, a celestial custody battle, and an illegal supernatural labor union, chaos ensues. Charlie just wanted margaritas and sunburn—instead, he's juggling his demonic baby, angels with issues, and his father's inexplicable luck. With Simon at his side and a gremlin strike threatening to dismantle the resort, this is one holiday that proves family isn't about blood—it's about who shows up when the hellfire hits the fan.

The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery is one of mankind's greatest mysteries, which has never been explained. Until now. In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers—James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur—vanished from the remote Flannan Isles in Scotland. A relief crew found the lighthouse empty, with a stopped clock, an overturned chair, and, inexplicably, one set of oilskins left behind.