About This Cover
The House Across the Mere is an exclusive historical mystery premade book cover created for authors seeking an atmospheric Victorian or Edwardian setting shaped by isolation, family secrets and a distant house with a troubled past.
Set beside a mist-covered mere, the artwork combines a solitary female figure, an empty rowing boat, reflected lamplight and an imposing country house standing across the water. The scene suggests distance, uncertainty and the possibility that the truth lies somewhere beyond the shore.
The composition is particularly well suited to stories involving abandoned houses, missing relatives, old letters, village secrets, disputed memories or a return to a place long associated with loss or disappearance.
Rather than defining one fixed plot, the design allows authors to develop their own characters, location and narrative while benefiting from distinctive, professionally illustrated cover artwork.
This design is licensed exclusively to one author. Once purchased, it is removed from sale and professionally personalised with your book title, author name and optional short subtitle before delivery.
Ideal For
- Historical mystery
- Victorian and Edwardian suspense
- Women’s historical fiction
- Country-house mysteries
- Family secrets and hidden pasts
- Missing-person and disappearance narratives
- Letters, inheritance and unresolved history
- Atmospheric lakeside or rural fiction
What’s Included
- Exclusive single-author licence — the design is sold once only
- Your book title, author name and optional short subtitle professionally integrated into the design
- Typography adjusted to suit your wording, genre and overall presentation
- High-resolution flattened front cover prepared for ebook publishing
- Web-ready promotional version for your website and social media
- One complimentary 3D cover mockup
- One reasonable round of typography revisions
Price: €195, paid in full at checkout.
Purchasing the cover immediately reserves the design for your book. It will then be removed from sale while the personalised typography and final files are prepared.
Optional Additional Services
Paperback wrap formatting, audiobook adaptations, hardback formats and additional promotional graphics are available separately.
A final paperback wrap can be prepared once you provide the confirmed trim size, page count, paper type, back-cover copy and publishing specifications.
Paperback wraps and format mockups shown in the product gallery demonstrate optional services and are not included in the standard €195 front-cover package unless stated otherwise.
Any Gerard Fay or GF spine mark shown in preview images is for presentation only. It can be removed or replaced with the author’s or publisher’s own imprint logo when a final paperback wrap is prepared.
Files and Licence
The final cover is supplied as a professionally prepared, flattened publication file. Layered working files, source assets, separate artwork elements and production materials are not included.
Copyright in the underlying artwork remains with Gerard Fay. The purchaser receives the agreed exclusive publishing-use licence for the finished cover design.
