Forever shelf
Favorite books
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Northanger Abbey
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- The Princess Bride
A light is moving through the stacks
Finding your place.
Lantern is setting out the next page.
LanternA. M. Murdoch
Romance for readers who know the best love stories usually start with a terrible idea.
Paranormal romanceUrban fantasy romanceFantasy romanceRomantic fantasyFolklore-inspired romanceCosy fantasy romance
7,085published words across 1 Lantern story
Behind the byline
About the author
A. M. Murdoch writes romantic speculative fiction about people making questionable decisions in the vicinity of ghosts, witches, fae and other things sensible adults are advised not to touch.
He has a particular weakness for workplace tension, old folklore, impossible relationships and the moment two people finally realise everyone else noticed months ago. His stories tend to involve supernatural trouble, inconvenient feelings and at least one person insisting they are absolutely not flirting.
When not writing, he can usually be found reading obscure case histories, drinking coffee he has forgotten to finish, or taking entirely innocent notes about conversations that are definitely none of his business.
⌖ Buckinghamshire · Usually near coffee, folklore and other people’s business
The fun stuff.
The little things readers always want to know after the last page.
In the headphones
Writing soundtrack
- Film scores
- Old folk songs
- Rain against the windows
- Whatever my colleagues are arguing about downstairs
Tiny author lore
Things to know
- Has never met a workplace romance he couldn’t improve
- Keeps notebooks for entirely innocent reasons
- Will choose the haunted pub every time
- Believes unresolved tension is a renewable resource
On Lantern
Stories by A. M. Murdoch
Romance, Urban Fantasy
Return to Wonderland
Radek Kral knows how to skate.
As a left wing for the Milton Keynes Tempest, ice is the one place he has never had to think twice. Then a knee injury gets him benched and packed off to Calderton-by-the-Sea for six weeks of rehabilitation, healing baths and strict instructions to avoid heroics.
He lasts less than a day before finding the Silver Pavilion.
Beatrice “Trix” Gale has spent most of her life inside Calderton’s century-old ice theatre. She grew up as one of its rink rats, became one of its principal skaters, and has no patience for the injured hockey player who assumes show skating will be easy because he already knows how to move on ice.
Radek only intends to fill a temporary place in the chorus. Trix has no intention of becoming responsible for him. Neither expects an old theatre, a summer production of Return to Wonderland, and a little impossible magic to rearrange their plans.
Because at the Silver Pavilion, the stories performed on the ice have a habit of becoming just a little too real.
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