In the tide-locked village of Brinehaven, a stone chapel rises out of the sea only at low tide and its bell rings every dusk, no matter the water. Photographer Marina Hale comes to document the vanishing coast, but her camera captures something no one else can see: Ansel Marsh, the bell-ringer, standing in the chapel doorway, looking straight at her.

Ansel has rung the bell for a hundred years, holding a bargain that keeps the sea from taking the village. Every photograph Marina takes makes him more real and every photograph makes the tide rise higher. As she falls in love with the man the sea is keeping, Marina must choose between the career-making series her editor demands and the village, and the man, the bargain is about to drown.

A haunting, tender horror romance about a love that refuses to be collected, The Drowned Chapel builds its dread slowly through fog, salt water, and a bell that rings from underneath the sea toward a powerful final twist and an ending full of hope.

A horror romance novel by Flor Nocturna.