St Orison is a completed six-novel series set within a fully developed fictional coastal world.
All six St Orison novels are complete. Beginning with The Returning Light, the series moves across different decades and generations while remaining rooted in the same Cornish coastal town, its people, history and unexplained phenomena.
Alongside the novels, the wider St Orison project now includes an established visual identity, character and location material, historical archives, Gazette content, audio and visual concepts, and an expanding online world.
The Series
Six completed novels. One coastal town. Stories spanning generations, from the events of 1958 through to contemporary St Orison. Each novel stands as its own story while contributing to a wider history of the town, its people and the forces that have shaped it.
Book One – The Returning Light
Book Two – The Intended Choice
Book Three – The Sisterhood of St Orison
Book Four – The Sirens of St Orison
Book Five – The St Orison Effect
Book Six – The Lore of St Orison
Book One – The Returning Light
Contemporary fiction · approximately 91,200 words · Book One of a completed six-novel series
Elliot Winlow arrives in St Orison intending to spend three months away from his old life. The Cornish harbour town is new to him — a place to step back, take stock and decide what comes next. But what begins as a quiet sabbatical soon gives way to intrigue, new friendships, an unexpected relationship and a growing sense that there is far more to St Orison than its picturesque surface suggests.
As Elliot becomes drawn deeper into the town and its mysteries, the past begins to feel much closer than it should — particularly when questions surrounding his son Daniel and his disappearance in 1995 begin to surface.