Quiet magic
Cozy, heart-swelling fantasy rooted in everyday acts of care.
The Warm Line · Book One
A love story
that keeps you warm.
A tender, magical novel about grief, chosen family, and a hundred-year-old bathhouse that refuses to let its people face the cold alone.
For readers of TJ Klune, Alix E. Harrow, and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Queer love, quietly found
A bathhouse with a secret
Family, warmly chosen
Welcome to the Meridian
Some houses
remember how to hold you.
Leave your shoes and your titles at the door. The water will remember the rest.
Ezra Kane came to audit the books, price the place, and sell it.
Instead, he finds the Meridian: a crumbling neighborhood bathhouse where the water runs warm from a spring that shouldn’t exist, the coats hang themselves, and a keeper named Sal has been forty-three years too young for as long as anyone can remember.
With the Meridian running out of money and a developer circling the block, Ezra must stop counting what he’s losing—and let himself be kept.
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SeriesThe Warm Line · I
GenreMagical Realism
“Grief is not a weight you carry alone—it’s warmth you pass to the next cold person who walks through the door.”
Come in, the water’s warm
A story for readers who love…
Slow-burn love
A soft grumpy-meets-tender romance that arrives gently and stays.
Chosen family
Eccentric elders, open doors, and the kin we find for ourselves.
Hopeful tears
A warm-hearted story that leaves you a little lighter than it found you.
Author of The Warm LineAbout the author
Theo Marsh writes stories about the places we find warmth.
Theo Marsh writes tender queer fiction about love, grief, and the families we choose. Taking the Waters is the first book in The Warm Line.
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