The Protocols of Gideon Blake

There are places where silence lingers longer than it should. On the rugged coast of North Yorkshire lies Ravens Dell, a forgotten valley, its cottages crumbling at the edge of the sea. When Gideon Blake, scientist and investigator of the unexplained, receives a desperate letter with only one line, he sets out for the remote Cliff End Cottage. Inside its walls, a mother and child are haunted by something more than shadows: knocking that comes from nowhere, whispers in the night, and a figure at the window that should not exist.

As Gideon follows the traces of the past, he uncovers the fate of a woman who vanished in the 1970s, and whose presence seems bound to the valley itself. What begins as a quiet investigation becomes a journey into forgotten histories, grief, and the thin line between memory and haunting. Call from the Cliffs is the opening chapter of The Gideon Blake Files, a series blending atmosphere, psychology, and folklore. For readers who love stories where the past never truly rests.