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Some 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 grew up in a home marked by hardship, where books became his safest refuge. As a child, he often escaped to the small town library - a quiet sanctuary where stories offered the comfort, courage, and companionship the world around him often could not. Those early shadows shaped his imagination, giving rise to the vivid, uncanny worlds he writes today. Diagnosed with Bipolar II later in life, Iwan discovered that the same inner world he once used to survive had become the source of his greatest strength: storytelling. Through the years he built a career in technology - from support technician to solutions engineer to technical writer - while never letting go of the one constant that carried him through every chapter of his journey: writing. His debut novel,, introduced readers to his signature style of supernatural suspense infused with emotion, mystery, and quiet resilience. Many of his stories draw from the unseen places of his life - the search for belonging, the ache of unanswered questions, and a belief that something greater watches over us, even in our darkest moments. Today, Iwan is the Lead Technical Writer at his company and continues to craft stories filled with secrets, shadows, and humanity. He lives with his wife, Marna - his greatest inspiration and the heart of his world - and their spirited Jack Russell, Benji. Their love story is a miracle he plans to write about someday. Iwan believes that the imagination is a shelter, a compass, and a lifeline. His message to aspiring writers is simple: Every story begins with survival, and every survivor has a story worth telling.

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