For eight years, Dr. Maya Thorne has trusted her husband’s explanation for the night her sister disappeared: a car crash, a head injury, and a grief she cannot fully remember.Then a young woman washes ashore below the isolated Oakhaven Institute, clutching Laura’s silver dragonfly locket.As a violent nor’easter cuts off the Maine peninsula, Maya uncovers evidence that someone has been manipulating memory at Oakhaven. The medication her husband gives her every morning may no...

What if artificial intelligence never took control? What if we simply became too comfortable asking it what to do?Astra does not dream. She does not hope. She does not love. But she can recognize patterns - and humans leave patterns everywhere.Dana Vale knows how useful Astra can be. It helped detect the medical condition that made her son's life possible. It organizes the small decisions of a busy household and catches dangers before they become disasters. For Dana, Astra ...

When marine-acoustics auditor Linnea Vance arrives on remote Killdeer Island, Maine, she expects a difficult corporate inspection. Instead, she finds a vanished mentor, falsified environmental data, and a coastal research company willing to bury its secrets beneath the Atlantic.Boatbuilder and salvage captain Cole Mercer has spent two years mourning the brother whose death was ruled an accident. He knows the island's waters, its hidden channels, and the price of asking questions ab...

Cal Vaughn makes his living writing beautiful lies for strangers’ funerals.Once a promising journalist, he now gives grieving families the version of a life they can bear to remember. Then William Kestrel—the celebrated editor who helped destroy Cal’s career—dies and leaves him one final commission: write the eulogy, and tell the truth.In the files Kestrel leaves behind, Cal discovers that the newspaper’s beloved Sunday columns were written by Evelyn Bell, a woman whose nam...

Wren Calloway thought the ledger would expose the people responsible for her sister’s disappearance.Instead, it leads her to Account 612—and proof that the network behind Bellhaven did not simply erase identities. It controlled them.With Callum Ashworth, Wren follows a maritime trail from a dying fisherman’s logbook to the ports that moved people under false names. Every answer reveals a deeper layer of the conspiracy—and a new reason to believe Josie may still be alive.

The ledger was meant to expose a network built on stolen identities.Instead, it has made Wren Calloway and Callum Ashworth targets.As the final names in the Black Ledger lead them from Bellhaven to Valparaíso, Wren discovers that the truth about her sister is more dangerous than she imagined—and that the people behind Account 612 are prepared to destroy the evidence, the witnesses, and anyone who refuses to disappear.With old loyalties collapsing and the sea closing...

When her younger sister dies in what authorities call a rain-soaked accident, Seattle obituary writer Jo Calder returns to Grayhaven—the Pacific Northwest town she spent years trying to escape.Lena had been investigating Meridian Grove, the powerful care facility that keeps Grayhaven employed and silent. Now the records are gone, the sheriff has closed the case, and the town’s most respected family wants Jo to leave before she asks the wrong questions.Following a list writt...

The hospital gives Nia Porter three days to take her mother home. Her family has three days to decide who will carry the cost.Mae Porter has survived the fall, the ribs that will not let her breathe deeply, and the hospital stay that has made her furious. But she cannot return to the house she has loved for fifty years without help - and help is something Mae has spent a lifetime refusing.Nia is already one missed payment away from disaster. Her brother Marcus is hiding a c...

Eight years after her sister vanished without a trace, investigative podcaster Wren Calloway has built a career exposing other people’s cold cases.Then Marina Voss disappears on the eve of her wedding into one of Bellhaven’s most powerful families.A coded ledger, hidden routes, and one account number pull Wren toward the Ashworth dynasty—and toward Callum Ashworth, the man whose family name is woven through every secret she uncovers.The deeper Wren goes, the clearer...

Cádiz, 1952. A damaged nautical chart reveals an island erased from the map—and a crime powerful families have spent generations protecting.BOOK DESCRIPTIONCádiz, 1952. Map restorer Mateo Ruiz knows that paper remembers what people try to erase.When Elena Vane brings him a damaged eighteenth-century chart recovered after her archivist husband’s death, Mateo finds altered soundings, erased names, and the outline of an island removed from the official coastline.