In the unforgiving town of Blackridge, secrets never stay buried. They lie just beneath the surface, waiting for the slightest crack to force their way out.
Parolee and former master thief Isla Dalton wants nothing more than a clean slate… to protect her Nana and build a life that stays intact. But when she arrives at a secluded property and finds Celeste Callaghan murdered, a woman who had summoned her with promises about her dead sister, the past she tried to leave behind comes rushing back. In a town that stopped asking questions long ago, Isla
becomes the easiest answer.
Meanwhile, Wyatt Callaghan had the perfect plan… murder his wife and take control of the CallaCore empire. There is just one problem. Someone got there first. Now, as hallucinations creep in and letters from his dead wife arrive uninvited, the edges of his reality begin to splinter. The identity he built for himself starts to come undone, like a door left slightly ajar, waiting to be pushed open.
Detective Talia Vance follows the trail into corporate corruption, vanishing landowners, and a twenty-five-year-old cottage fire that refuses to stay buried. As the lines between victim and perpetrator blur, one truth becomes impossible to ignore.
Blackridge has kept its secrets for twenty-five years.
It won't stay quiet much longer.