Books - The Heartbound Chronicles

A sweeping time-slip romance series — where grief learns to heal, and love finds a way across centuries.

The Victorian Pendant  - Book One

She crossed a century to end up in his parlor.

He hadn't planned on letting anyone in again.

Penelope Ward has spent her life leaving before she can be left. Orphaned young and guarding her heart at every turn, the twenty-eight-year-old Midwesterner is shocked when she finally gets a place of her own — a crumbling Victorian house with secrets hiding beneath the floorboards. When she uncovers an antique pendant, she is pulled into another era entirely, and straight into the path of a man who should not exist in her world.

Connor Halden has been frozen in sorrow since the death of his wife and child in 1892. Four years later, he is still bound to the house they built and the memories he cannot escape. The last thing he expects is a strange woman and her sharp-tongued calico cat to appear in his front parlor — uninvited, unapologetic, and utterly impossible. Yet her unusual ways, sharp wit, and unguarded compassion awaken something in him he believed was buried forever.

Penelope knows that loving Connor could cost her the future she has only just begun to build — and the family, feline and human alike, she has only just found. Connor knows that opening his heart again risks shattering what little remains of it. As the magic tying them together deepens, they must decide whether love is worth the impossible choice — because some bonds aren't meant to survive the ages, unless they are strong enough to change fate itself.

The Victorian Pendant is Book One of The Heartbound Chronicles — a sweeping time travel romance with Victorian heart, a house that holds more than memories, and two broken people discovering that some connections don't care about the distance between eras.

A Heart Bound in Time

He arrived in her parlor from 1943 with no explanation.

She had stopped expecting anyone to stay.

The house had other plans.

Ross Sterry has always trusted logic over belief. As an intelligence officer in 1943, that certainty has kept him alive. But when an antique pendant pulls him into a future that should not exist — and into a house that remembers more than it should — Ross is forced to confront a connection he cannot explain and a woman he cannot forget.

Leona Orlan has built her life around helping others through grief while quietly carrying burdens of her own. The Victorian house where she works and lives is safe, predictable, and carefully ordered. Until the day in 2004, when a stranger appears in her hallway with impossible truths and emotions she has spent years keeping buried.

Ross believes he was pulled into her world for a reason. Leona has spent years preparing for people to leave. As the bond between them deepens, they discover the pendant did not bring them together by accident. But when its true purpose begins to unravel, the cost of the love between them becomes something neither can ignore.

A Heart Bound in Time is Book Two of The Heartbound Chronicles — a sweeping time-slip romance where grief finally learns how to heal, and the house remembers what the heart forgets.

The Heartbound Chronicles

A sweeping time-slip romance series — where grief learns to heal, and love finds a way across centuries.

The Victorian Pendant — Book One — $20 

A Heart Bound in Time — Book Two — $22 Releasing July 28th — Pre-order now 

Merch & Collectibles

The Heartbound Pendant — Victorian Stone (from The Victorian Pendant) — $75 The same pendant, forever changed — this is the stone as it appeared in 1892, the relic that first bridged the century between Penelope and Connor.

Mina Plush (from The Victorian Pendant) — $30

The Heartbound Pendant — 1943 Stone (from A Heart Bound in Time) — $75 Releasing July 28th — Pre-order now The pendant, transformed once more — the stone as it appeared in 1943, when it reached across time for Ross and Leona.

Cinder Plush (from A Heart Bound in Time) — $30 Releasing July 28th — Pre-order now

Bundles (per book — no series bundle yet, series still in progress)

Book + Matching Pendant — $90 (save $5)

Book + Matching Cat Plush — $45 (save $5)

Book + Matching Pendant + Matching Cat Plush — $110 (save $15)

Note: a full-series bundle will be added once The Heartbound Chronicles is complete.