Ash Grove Cottage

Charlotte Madeleine Eleanor Ashcroft comes to a forgotten village on Ireland's west coast to spend a year researching folklore.

She expects old legends, dusty archives, and stories passed down through generations.

Instead, she finds a stone cottage at the edge of an ancient forest, a village where everyone knows each other's names, a bookseller who always has the perfect recommendation, a priest who believes stories are sacred, and a musician who speaks more easily through songs than words.

What begins as a year of research slowly becomes a year of belonging.

Through changing seasons, shared meals, rainy afternoons, quiet walks, and everything left unsaid, Charlotte discovers that folklore isn't only found in forgotten manuscripts.

Sometimes it's carried in the people who choose to stay.

And sometimes, without realizing it, you become part of the story you came to write.

A slow-burn literary romance inspired by the Irish countryside, Jane Austen, Hozier, Noah Kahan, and the quiet beauty of ordinary life.