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
Dark RomanceHIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKSDark Romance · ObsessionHIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKSMaren Ellis wakes at 2:17 a.m. in a stranger’s heavily guarded house with no memory of how she got there—and a bedroom door that refuses to open. Her first thought is simple. She has been kidnapped. Then she discovers the lock isn’t meant to keep her inside. It is meant to keep someone else out. Cillian Rook is everything Maren should run from: wealthy, ruthless, dangerously controlled, and far too interested in a woman he claims he barely knows. He watches everything. Remembers everything. Knows when she is lying, when she is frightened, and sometimes what she needs before she does. And when Maren demands to go home, Cillian gives her the one answer she hates most. “You can leave. I just can’t promise they won’t find you.” Because the attack that brought her into his house was no accident. Someone wants Maren silenced. Worse, Cillian may know why. As locked rooms begin opening and buried secrets connect Maren’s father to one of the most powerful families in the city, she discovers that Cillian’s obsession with protecting her began long before the night they supposedly met. Now Maren has to decide which frightens her more—the people hunting her, or the man willing to destroy anyone who touches her. Cillian calls it protection. Maren calls it control. But somewhere between forbidden doors, whispered threats, brutal jealousy, and the terrifying tenderness he shows only to her, the line between captivity and belonging begins to blur. Because Cillian Rook wants her. Desperately. Possessively. Enough to lock the entire world outside if that is what it takes to keep her safe. But if he truly loves her, he will eventually have to learn the one thing that terrifies him most: A woman who is free to leave can only become his if she chooses to stay.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
