Book Launch

The Silverton Estate Series

May 25, 2026

Dear Readers, Friends:
I’m pleased to announce the release of Books One and Two
of the Silverton Estate Series, Mary Ellen Gambutti
(pen name) Islay Corwin.

Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic
Through the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records

Both novellas are set within the grounds, gardens, and dwellings of a New England Estate. The story moves through cedar groves, lost and found files, hidden archives, buried secrets, and the threshold between memory and myth. Stella’s search for her origins in Book One leads to the discovery of human and otherworldly gatekeeping in Book Two.

For a limited time, the serialized version of Book One is free to read on Substack. Read the Prologue of Through the Yew Hedge

While either book can be read on its own, you’ll find the world and characters of Through the Iron Gate most resonant if you’ve read Through the Yew Hedge first.

As both a writer and a former garden designer, I’ve always felt the memory of old landscapes. Paths invite, redirect, and sometimes warn us away. This story grew from those ideas: thresholds, inheritance, secrets, locked and opened gates, and the living architecture of place.

Gothic Botanical Fiction
Dark academia is threaded through cedar groves, hidden archives, timeless gardens, and the inherited silence of an abandoned cottage.
Through the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records

What survives when identity is hidden, rewritten, or buried?