Gothic Myths Books in Order

Gothic Myths is a loose series of stand alone gothic novels that lean into eerie landscapes, buried secrets, and slow building romance. Each story takes a different local legend as its spark and asks what truth might hide underneath the superstition.

The first novel, Secrets in the Mist, is set in 1812 among the marshes and waterways of the Norfolk broads in eastern England. Ella Winterton has been keeping her small household afloat since the deaths of her mother and brother, managing her alcoholic father and their crumbling cottage on the edge of the fens.

Local stories warn of the Lantern Men, figures said to lure travelers off safe paths and drown them in the bogs. Ella has always dismissed the tales as excuses for smugglers and poachers. That changes the night a masked stranger dressed like a Lantern Man confronts her in the mist, and the comfortable lies of the village begin to unravel.

Smuggling, blackmail, and old grievances all play a part as she tries to understand who the stranger really is and why the people she trusts are hiding so much from her. When her father is caught with contraband brandy and faces ruin, Ella is forced to turn to this unsettling man for help even as she questions his motives and her own growing attraction.

The result is part mystery, part romance, and part love letter to the haunting beauty of the broads.

Huber uses the Gothic Myths banner to explore classic gothic ingredients she enjoys as a reader: young women boxed in by family or class, dangerous landscapes that reflect a character's inner turmoil, and legends that may conceal very human crimes. Readers who like candlelit suspense, morally complicated love interests, and endings that offer hard won hope will find this corner of her work especially satisfying.