Between Two Ancient Skies

Edie Ashworth returns to Edwinstowe to settle her great-aunt's estate and breathe again beneath Sherwood's rain-heavy branches. Grief should feel simple. Paperwork should feel dull. Then a letter arrives from France, postmarked Carcassonne, carrying a tarnished key and a place-name Edie has never visited, yet somehow recognises.

In the Languedoc, Lucien Arnaud has spent his life skirting a family silence. He knows the past can be inherited like land, like debts, like a story nobody agrees to tell out loud. When Edie's questions reach him, he expects a tidy explanation. He does not expect her.

England and Occitanie begin to speak to each other: a carving in bark, an old photograph, a chapel where the air turns strange, a sentence in French which will not leave Edie's mouth once she reads it. The closer Edie and Lucien draw, the more the present feels threaded through something older: a love repeated, a loss repeated, a promise made under another sky.

Between Two Ancient Skies is an emotional, literary romance with a mystery at its heart: past lives, buried names, and two people forced to decide what they will risk for the truth, and for each other.