Celebrate Lit / November 30, 2025

The Red Cottage

About the Book The Red Cottage

Book: The Red Cottage

Author: Hannah Linder

Genre: Christian Fiction / Historical / Regency Romance

Release Date: November 2025

She forgot she loved him.
He would die to make her remember.

Meg Foxcroft has never minded the tattling village gossip or her uncle’s ill-tempered rebukes. After all, she has Tom McGwen—and one day, they will build their own cottage, paint it red, and live a wonderful life.

But then the unthinkable happens. Meg is attacked, her uncle’s apothecary shop goes up in flames, and when she wakes up in the arms of an eloquent lord, she remembers nothing. Not even her own name.

In a frantic race against time, Tom plunges into dangerous water, bent on sheltering Meg from harm and discovering who wants her dead, even if she despises him. Even if it’s now the handsome lord she casts her smile upon.

As danger swells and truth comes crashing around them, Meg must confront the past and decide who she trusts—and loves—before the enemy makes the final strike.

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My Thoughts on The Red Cottage

The Red Cottage is a wonderful historical fiction novel with a race against time plus suspense, plus romance! It’s everything you could ever want in a book, plus more!

This is a Regency romance novel. But like most of Hannah Linder’s books, it has a Gothic feel to it. Think dark and broody, but not so dark you can’t find the truth within the pages.

Meg is our heroine. Her uncle’s shop is destroyed by flames. Meg has an accident and gets amnesia. She finds herself with a Lord! And she doesn’t remember the young man she loves and made plans for a future with. The one man who really and truly made her life worth living.

Can that one man, Tom, step into her life and keep her safe while also solving the mystery within the pages? The mystery of who is truly the bad person and how to stop them?

It is a dual point of view story with Tom and Meg both taking the lead. They do change often, which keeps the reader on their toes. The story is dark. The story definitely takes some twists and turns as well. I’m a fan of Hannah Linder. She writes the Gothic novels to perfection. If you don’t like dark and broody, you’re not going to like this novel, though.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review, nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of The Red Cottage

Hannah Linder resides in the beautiful mountains of central West Virginia. Represented by Books & Such, she writes Regency romantic suspense novels filled with passion, secrets, and danger.

She is a four-time Selah Award winner, a 2023 Carol Award semi-finalist, a 2023 Angel Book Award third place winner, and a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).

Also, Hannah is an international and multi-award-winning graphic designer who specializes in professional book cover design. She designs for both traditional publishing houses and individual authors, including New York Times, USA Today, and international bestsellers.

She is also a self-portrait photographer of historical fashion.

When Hannah is not writing, she enjoys playing her instruments—piano, guitar, ukulele, and banjolele—songwriting, painting still life, walking in the rain, square dancing, and sitting on the front porch of her 1800s farmhouse.

More from Hannah

We’re made for someone. I think I’ve always believed this—that it was never about proximity, or happenstance, or who you know, or where you are.

But that God, in His infinite wisdom, created a second half for each of us.

Someone who fits in the curve of your neck when you hug.

Who laughs at the things you laugh at.

Who speaks to you in a language your soul understands?

I think that’s why I love The Red Cottage so much.

Circumstances would have never mattered with Tom and Meg. They loved each other. They were linked. And even if everything had been different, if they had been born hundreds of years before, they would have found their way back to each other.

If the age had been ancient Egypt, and he had been a Pharaoh and she a slave, they would have discovered each other.

If the year were 1920, and he were a factory worker, and she the daughter of an oil tycoon, they would have defied the rules of society.

In any other place, in any other time, in any other way, Tom would have loved Meg. And Meg would have loved Tom. That is the beauty and the mind-blowing magic of real love.

So, when you fall into the pages of The Red Cottage, I hope you aren’t so foolish as to imagine this was an accident. That Tom said the right things, or that Meg felt vulnerable in just the right places, and that their bond—both the first and second time—was a mere hapless stroke of luck.

They would have loved each other anyway.

We’re all made for someone.