Books
The Carter library
The Overwritten Covenant
Every founding family in Wren's Hollow signed the original covenant in 1899. Every signature was forged in the same hand. When the lone descendant of the only family who refused to sign comes home to bury her grandmother, four people in town would rather she leave — and one of them is willing to make sure she doesn't get the chance.
The Plus-One Problem
Nobody at the rehearsal dinner knows who the groom's plus-one is. By the time the wedding guests sit down to dinner, the bride is missing, the groom is lying about where he was at midnight, and the plus-one is the only person who saw what happened on the dock—and the only person nobody can find.
The Devil's Map
The hand-drawn map turns up in an estate sale, marked with seven Xs across a county that hasn't existed since 1908. Six of the locations match unsolved disappearances. The seventh is a house that is currently occupied — and the new owners have no idea their address has been waiting.
The Last Retreat
Eight women, one cliffside wellness retreat, and a host who promises she can fix what is broken in each of them. By the third day the phones are gone, the doors do not open from the inside, and the only person who knows how they all really got there has stopped pretending to be a guest.
Perfect Evidence
The case is a prosecutor's dream — clean prints, clear motive, a confession on tape. So why is the lead detective resigning the morning after the verdict? When a freelance investigator is hired to find out, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than imperfect evidence is evidence that's a little too perfect.
The Last Guest House
Off-season on a barrier island, the Vance family reopens the inn for one last weekend before the bank takes it. By Sunday morning, two guests are missing, the bridge to the mainland is out, and the youngest Vance daughter is starting to remember what really happened the summer the inn went dark.
The Door-Seal Alibi
The door was sealed from the inside. The victim was alone. The security footage is unbroken. And the only person who could have done it was three hundred miles away, on camera, the entire night. So who is on the recording the victim made forty-eight seconds before she died?
The Fifth Figure
Four people stood in the photograph the night Eva Hollis vanished. The fifth was cropped out, deliberately, by someone who is still in this town. Twenty years later, the photo resurfaces—and so does the fifth figure, with a list of every person who ever asked the wrong question.
The Chambers File
Detective Lila Reyes has spent eleven years convinced the Chambers case was closed for the wrong reasons. When a journalist with a grudge and a box of unopened evidence shows up at her door, she gets one more shot at proving it—and one more chance to bury whatever the original investigation was protecting.
Restoration and Ruin
When an art restorer is hired to clean a mid-century portrait pulled from a sealed attic, she finds a second face beneath the first — and a name the family insists never existed. The longer she works, the clearer it becomes: somebody painted over a witness, and somebody is willing to do worse to keep her covered up.
Verified Verdict
A juror sends a single email the night before delivering a guilty verdict. Eighteen months later, that email is the only thing standing between an innocent man and a life sentence — and the only person who can produce it is the juror who has been missing ever since the trial ended.
The Carrow Bargain
The Carrow family has run the town of Halden Mills for four generations. When the matriarch dies on the eve of selling the family estate, her granddaughter inherits more than the house—she inherits the bargain that built it, and the names of everyone who paid for it to stay standing.