ThrillerSURVIVE UNTIL SUNRISEThriller · MysterySURVIVE UNTIL SUNRISENora Vance enters Blackwater Lodge searching for answers about her missing sister, Lily. Instead, she becomes one of the unwilling players in the Vigil—a seven-night hunt where wealthy clients pay to chase human prey through a private mountain estate. Every sunrise is supposed to bring them closer to freedom. Every new rule proves otherwise. As bodies fall and alliances fracture, Nora uncovers links between the Vigil, her father’s suspicious death, a buried disaster at Harrow Pass, and a secret archive powerful enough to destroy everyone behind Blackwater. Her only chance may lie with Cole Mercer, a tracker who should be hunting her but keeps choosing to help her survive. But Cole is hiding the one truth Nora may never forgive. With the final night approaching, survival is no longer enough. Nora and the others must expose the system before Blackwater erases them with it.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Coming of AgeThe Summer Before Everything ChangedComing of Age · Contemporary RomanceThe Summer Before Everything ChangedTessa Quinlan has spent four years believing one reckless text killed her brother. Now the Blue Heron Inn is being sold, the boy whose family took the blame has returned to Sandpiper Key, and Luke’s old phone has surfaced with a summer list he never finished. Eli Barrow did not come back for Tessa. He came back for the evidence his father was blamed for losing. But the deeper they dig into the night Luke died, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone else was on that boat. Someone Tessa trusts. And the powerful family preparing to buy her home may have spent years making sure nobody ever discovers what really happened. Between a crumbling family inn, an unfinished summer list, a love triangle built on buried guilt, and a secret capable of destroying two families, Tessa must decide whether uncovering the truth is worth losing everything she thought her future would be. Because sometimes growing up means discovering that the life you planned was never really yours. And sometimes the only way forward is to stop living for the person who never got the chance.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Detective MysteryThe Case My Father Never SolvedDetective Mystery · Crime ThrillerThe Case My Father Never SolvedThirty-one years ago, five people vanished from the quiet town of Ashenmoor—including nine-year-old Ivy Merrit. Her father, Detective Chief Inspector Gethin Merrit, spent the rest of his life trying to solve the case. He died with nineteen boxes of evidence still stacked in his garage and a reputation built on never giving up. Now his surviving daughter, cold-case detective Calla Merrit, has only eleven months before the fen where the victims may be buried disappears beneath a new reservoir. She expects to finish the investigation that destroyed her family. Instead, she discovers something no one was ever supposed to notice. There are two versions of the case file. Statements are missing. Search maps have been altered. Evidence points in directions it never should have. And buried among her father’s papers is proof that he may have known exactly who the killer was decades ago. The deeper Calla digs, the more terrifying the question becomes—not who took the victims, but why her father spent thirty-one years making sure the case could never be solved. Because only four people were taken. And the truth about the fifth victim begins inside Calla’s own family. To give four families the answers they have waited decades for, Calla may have to destroy her father’s legacy, expose the people she loves, and sacrifice the career she built trying to become everything she believed he was.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
