Book One of The Velvet AtlasSome secrets are worth millions. Others are worth killing to keep buried.When renowned historian Dr. Emilia Vale inherits her late father's research, she expects dusty manuscripts and unfinished notes. Instead, she uncovers the first clue in a centuries-old conspiracy powerful enough to rewrite history itself.Her search leads her to Venice, where forgotten archives, hidden passag...

The boy did not run. The house took him.When fifteen-year-old Eli Barlow vanishes after football practice, Mercy Ridge is quick to call him a runaway. His father has a temper. His home life is messy. Boys like Eli, people say, disappear when things get hard.Detective Lottie Mae Surratt knows better.Eli's little sister Maddie is terrified, clinging to his hoodie and hiding the truth behind half-answers. She saw a man with blue-painted keys. She heard...

The Creek That Carried NamesA Lottie Mae Surratt Novel · Book TwoMercy Ridge has buried its girls for decades. They just didn't count on Lottie Mae Surratt.When a woman is found facedown in the baptism creek behind Bethel Mercy Baptist, the sheriff calls it suicide and goes home for supper. Lottie Mae Surratt — retired detective, uninvited, and constitutionally incapable of leaving things alone — stays behind. She finds names carved into the stones beneath ...

A dead radio. A vanished children's choir. A hymn no one was supposed to remember.Detective Lottie Mae Surratt has learned that the dead do not call unless the living have lied first.When a twelve-year-old girl hears children singing from the locked balcony of an abandoned church, Lottie is pulled into one of Mercy Ridge's oldest wounds: the 1978 disappearance of the Canaan Ridge Children's Choir. The official story says the children were lost in a storm. But the church has...

A family retreat in the North Georgia mountains was supposed to give Jack Mercer one last chance to hold his marriage together.Instead, the cabin begins to remember what he has spent fourteen months trying to bury.Jack arrives with his wife, Sarah, and their two children at an inherited cabin hidden deep in the Georgia woods. The place belonged to his late Uncle John, a man who always seemed to know more about the land than he was willing to say. At first, the trip feels li...

Eight years ago, Nathan Rell's son vanished near Graywater Lake.Now the drought has pulled the water back, exposing the drowned town beneath it — old roads, broken rooftops, and a church steeple that should have stayed buried in the mud.Then the bell rings.It has no wind to move it. No clapper to strike it. But everyone on the shore hears something different.A dead wife. A lost child. A mother. A brother.Nathan hears Oren.The son whose final call he never answered.As Graywater descends int...

Some houses do not forget.When Mara Ellis returns to the isolated coastal house she once fled, she tells herself she is only there to settle family affairs, recover old memories, and finally put the past behind her. But Blackridge House has been waiting.Its rooms remember things Mara has tried to bury.A hallway changes when she looks away. A childhood bedroom holds objects that should not exist. Old grief rises through the walls like damp. And somewhere inside the h...

Some vows are heard. Some are kept forever.When wedding planner Maren Holt transforms the abandoned Saint Adeline's church into a luxury wedding venue, she believes she has found the perfect business opportunity: old stone, stained glass, candlelit aisles, and enough history to make brides pay premium prices.Then the sealed confessional begins to speak.At first, it repeats private secrets no one should know. Then it begins confessing sins before the...

Some houses remember the dead.This one tries to bring them back.When Jonah Mercer inherits an old Victorian house, he believes it might give his family a fresh start. His wife, Claire, wants distance from grief. Their daughter, Nora, wants to believe the house is only strange because it is old. But above the nursery ceiling, something is breathing.At first, Jonah tells himself it is settling wood, old pipes, or grief playing tricks on him. Then his dead brother Cale...

The house does not need you to believe in it.It only needs you to listen.Owen Calder moves his family into the old Rusk farmhouse hoping for a fresh start and one last chance to save his failing career as a true-crime podcaster. The house is cheap, secluded, and full of history — including the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Elsie Rusk, who vanished from a locked bedroom twenty-two years earlier.Owen tells himself he is only researching.Then the ven...

They were known as the "no-account Raines boys" but they've grown into successful, honorable men and everything they have, they've fought for tooth and nail.Now each of the three brothers has one last obstacle to overcome to claim what's eluding them: love. Secrets don't stay buried long in cattle country. Sarah Allen, the beautiful girl who humiliated Jackson Raines in high school, is back in town. Not so long ago, she couldn't wait to leave Wind Canyon, Wyoming, ...

The eleventh book in the iconic Nancy Drew mystery series! Longtime fans and aspiring detectives alike will enjoy matching their wits with this beloved teenage sleuth as she works to solve the case in this suspenseful, action-packed thriller.When Nancy Drew and her friends arrive at Misty Lake, they meet pretty, red-haired Cecily Curtis, who seeks Nancy’s help in solving two mysteries. One concerns Cecily’s fiancé, Niko Van Dyke, a popular singer who believes that ...