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The Sunken Treasure
Some debts never drown. Some ghosts never let go.When Clara Holt finds her father’s battered dive log under a bruised sky, she knows the sea hasn’t finished with her family yet. The Iron Revenant — half-legend, half-cursed freighter — waits somewhere beneath the salt-black waves, carrying a vault of stolen gold and secrets that killed better men than Clara’s father ever was.But the Revenant isn’t lost alone. It’s hunted by men who’ll bury the truth deeper than any trench can hold.Clara’s father went down chasing promises he couldn’t buy his way out of — and when Clara vows to finish what he started, she drags a fractured crew into waters colder and darker than any chart...
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The Drowned Archive
Some secrets are too deep for the tide to wash clean.Maritime archaeologist Dr. Clara Holt has spent her life trying to leave the ghosts of the deep where they belong — at the bottom of the cold Atlantic. But when a lighthouse keeper’s mysterious death delivers her a fragment of an old logbook — the last whisper of a shipwreck rumored to hold the infamous Constellation Ledger — Clara is dragged back beneath the surface she swore she’d escaped.The Constellation Ledger is no sailor’s ghost story. If real, it’s the missing key to a hidden trail of colonial smuggling routes that never died — they just evolved. For centuries, powerful families have paid in blood and bribes to keep...
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The Pale Shipwreck
When the ocean buries a secret, it keeps it deep—unless someone is reckless enough to drag it back into the light.Dr. Clara Holt has dedicated her life to chasing ghosts no sane archaeologist wants to touch—shipwrecks sealed so tight by the Atlantic’s cold teeth that even history forgot they were there. But her obsession has always been one wreck: Orion’s Mercy, a 19th-century merchant ship swallowed whole by a storm that shouldn’t have been strong enough to sink it. Legends claim its captain sealed something terrible in his cabin the night he put a pistol to his own skull.When sonar footage reveals the Mercy’s broken hull resting off the storm-lashed coast of Nova Scotia, Clara ...
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Echoes in the Asylum
What if memory isn’t something you carry—what if it’s something that carries you?Dr. Elise Warren has spent her life turning trauma into tidy diagnoses. At Dunlow Institute, a psychiatric facility with more secrets than staff, detachment isn’t just survival—it’s policy. But when a classified file marked only with the name “Madeline Grey” lands on her desk, Elise is pulled into a case that defies science, sanity, and time itself.Madeline claims she’s been a patient since 1968. She appears twenty-nine. She remembers events from before the building’s renovations—before Elise’s own mother was institutionalized there. And as Elise begins to unravel the case, the walls of D...
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Whispers Beyond Mercy Glen
One year after the final death that shook Mercy Glen, archivist Elinor Voss wants to believe peace has returned to the town. The church bells ring again, the library has been restored, and a sense of order—however fragile—settles over the cobbled streets. But when a stranger breaks into the Rosebridge Library and leaves behind a cryptic message addressed to “The Last True Curator,” the silence begins to unravel.What starts as a coded letter soon leads to a chilling discovery beneath the library’s floor: a sealed vault, new ivy growth—and a confession that was never meant to be found.As Elinor, Ruthie March, and Noah Ridgeway reopen the long-buried archives of Mercy Glen, they unc...
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Shadows Beneath Mercy Glen
Every secret has a witness. Every lie leaves a ledger.One year after the quiet murder that shook the heart of Mercy Glen, archivist Elinor Voss is drawn into another mystery—this time ignited by a letter that should never have existed. When the town’s centennial time capsule is opened, it reveals a prediction of death written years after the capsule was sealed. Days later, a former councilman is found dead—staged, symbolic, and chillingly precise.As Elinor, Detective Warren Giles, and local historian Ruthie Knox begin to investigate, they uncover a web of buried testimonies, manipulated records, and a legacy of silence stretching back generations. The deeper they dig, the more disturbi...
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Steele's Battalion: The Great War Diaries
Before history sanitized World War I, a soldier wrote it down in his diaries.Inside an old steamer trunk, a scholar uncovered forgotten diaries, revealing the voice of Ned Steele, a young American forever reshaped by the first global war of the modern age.Beginning in Detroit and ending in the ravaged fields of Europe, Steele's diaries trace his transformation from a civilian volunteer in 1914 to commissioned officer commanding machine-gun units on the Western Front. What unfolds is not a heroic myth, but an unfiltered chronicle of endurance: choking mud and gas, relentless artillery, shattered towns, exhaustion beyond measure, and the moral weight of leadership under fire.Between battles, S...
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A Quiet Murder in Mercy Glen
When disgraced academic Elinor Voss arrives in the fog-shrouded village of Mercy Glen to begin a quiet new life as the curator of the historic Rosebridge Library, she expects dust, books, and solitude—not a body.But when the town’s revered librarian, Agatha Hume, is found dead in the library’s locked reading room, strangled with an antique silk bookmark, Elinor is pulled into a chilling mystery buried beneath decades of silence. The only clues? A stack of cryptic letters, a locked drawer no one can open, and a bell tower that hasn’t rung in fifty years.As Elinor begins to piece together Agatha’s hidden past, she discovers the death is only the latest chapter in a much older story...
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The Fallen Body
A small-town lawyer. A mysterious woman. A murder that refuses to stay buried.Taylour Dixxon never expected to have her quiet life in rural Marlinsville, Texas upended by a stranger in a supermarket parking lot. But when she spots a familiar Kenneth Cole watch—the same one buried with her late mother—on the wrist of a woman she’s never met, Taylour’s instincts tell her something is very wrong.The woman is Sarah Cockrell, newly arrived in town and hiding more than just secrets behind her delicate smile. Their chance meeting triggers a chain of events that plunges Taylour into the middle of a murder investigation with national stakes. When Texas Rangers storm her home during dinner, Ta...
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Second Chances: A Christian Time Travel Novel
What if you could go back to your teenage years with everything you've learned as an adult?It's 2020, in the middle of the Pandemic, and forty-seven-year-old Nathan Brooks has spent years looking back on the choices that shaped his life. The mistakes, the missed opportunities, and the moments he wishes he could change. Then the impossible happens.Nathan wakes up in 1987 as his thirteen-year-old self, standing at the beginning of junior high with all his memories of the future intact. Determined to make better choices, Nathan embraces the opportunity to relive his teenage years. But as he reconnects with family, friendships, church life, and first love, he discovers that changing the past is ...
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