Secrets at Cedar Hollow

When Mara Quinn returns to Cedar Hollow after her mother's stroke, she expects to help save the family inn—not reopen the worst wound of her life.Blackthorn Lake still holds the same dark beauty, the same old secrets, and the same man she never truly left behind. Sheriff Cade Rowan has spent years keeping this town together with steady hands and hard silence. Facing Mara again was never part of the plan.But when human remains are discovered on the Quinn House bluff, the past refuses to stay buried. The body may belong to Lily Mercer, the girl who vanished seventeen years ago and left Cedar Hollow divided by rumor, grief, and lies. As Mara is pulled back into the mystery that shaped her youth, anonymous warnings begin to arrive, old loyalties crack, and long-hidden truths start surfacing from the people who wanted them buried most.With the inn failing, her mother still recovering, and danger closing in, Mara must decide how much she is willing to risk for the truth. Because someone in Cedar Hollow knows what happened all those years ago.And they are not finished yet.