The Washwoman at the River's End

Megan Shade

Book 1 of The Curse of the Fates

A gothic romantasy inspired by Scottish Washerwoman folklore, following Bea, a woman cursed to eternally wash the grave clothes of the dying at a haunted river's end, and Brennen, the guard secretly sworn to kill her for a past tragedy. As he's assigned to watch over her, old hatred slowly gives way to a forbidden, hard-won connection while a larger mystery about her curse and the fates unravels. It's a slow-burn, dual-POV story steeped in Celtic atmosphere and moral complexity rather than fast-paced action.