Inner Magnets deepens the world opened in Serch Bythol, transforming a story of awakening into one of reunion, integration, and increasingly dangerous transcendence. David Pierson begins the novel shattered by the revelation that the spectral Cecilia Ley was never a ghost at all, but Lia Bailey — a living young woman, a New York witch, and Cecilia’s present incarnation. Haunted by Daniel Orlov’s ruin after Cecilia’s death, David tries to sever himself from Lia before love can destroy him again.
But the force between them is not ordinary love. It is memory, vibration, unfinished destiny, and the pull of lives that refuse to remain buried. When David and Lia finally reunite, their relationship becomes the axis around which the novel turns — passionate, difficult, funny, erotic, mystical, and inseparable from the larger pattern gathering around Beak’s End.
As Oblivion rises and the present-day world expands, the past becomes impossible to contain. Ambrose de Ripariis — brilliant, charismatic, wounded, and beloved — returns through time, no longer merely a memory or spiritual presence but a living force in David and Lia’s evolving consciousness. Both David and Lia journey into the past to be with him, confronting love in forms too vast for one lifetime to hold. Through Ambrose, the novel explores not only romance, but soul kinship, sexuality, devotion, jealousy, healing, and the mysterious ways love survives every incarnation.
The discovery of the hidden portal room at Beak’s End shifts the saga onto a far greater metaphysical plane. There, an immense jewel-encrusted egg portal, An Mháthair, reveals the house as far more than a manor: it is a multidimensional dwelling, a sanctum built around ancient power, Irish myth, Tuatha de Danann echoes, and the living architecture of time itself. The portal does not merely show visions. It opens passage.
By the novel’s final movement, Pareidolia, the pattern behind the seemingly random visitations, memories, faces, warnings, and impossible crossings begins to emerge. David, Lia, and Ambrose find themselves caught between dimensions and timelines, their journey carrying them into 1902 and leaving the boundaries between past, present, and future dangerously porous.
At once gothic romance, occult mystery, metaphysical fantasy, rock-and-roll coming-of-age story, and time-travel love story, Inner Magnets is about the invisible forces that draw souls back together — not gently, but irresistibly. It is a novel of lovers, initiates, musicians, ghosts, portals, old gods, ancient enemies, and the terrible beauty of remembering who we have always been.
