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Author · Storyteller
Ryan Mercer
@ryanmercer
Independent writer working mainly in romance, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Ryan Mercer is a romance writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The smallest detail can change the temperature of a scene.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Ryan Mercer
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Lantern Room
In 1890s Portsmouth, a practical widow takes a temporary post cataloguing a private naval library and finds herself sharing the work with a reserved architect hired to restore the house’s ruined lantern room. As storms, family obligations and old grief press in, the two of them are forced to decide whether they are preserving the past or making room for a future neither expected.
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