Uncertainty

He has loved her for centuries. She has never loved him back.

Every time he loses her, he begins again. A different town, a different name, a different life — but always her. He remembers everything. She remembers nothing.

He is certain that this time will be different. He knows her better than anyone alive — what she needs, what she fears, what will make her stay. His devotion is total, his patience inexhaustible, his love the one fixed point across centuries of loss.

But something is wrong. Each time, she pulls away. Each time, something he cannot name opens between them — a distance, an unease, a resistance that grows stronger with every life she doesn't remember living.

He tells himself he is learning to love her better. He is only learning to lose her differently.

Set across the British landscape from the Cotswolds to the Yorkshire moors, Uncertainty is a novel about love that refuses to die — and the quiet horror of what that devotion might really be.

For readers of Shirley Jackson, Andrew Michael Hurley and Laura Purcell.