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The light swept the sea. The cottage bore the blood. The keeper held his tongue.
Inspired by a true unsolved case from 1873.
Cape Romain's marshland doesn't give up its secrets. Tides swallow footprints. Storms rearrange dunes. On Raccoon Key, two lighthouses stand guard over one unanswered question: What really happened to Brigitte Johansen?
They found her in the keeper's cottage bedroom-throat slit from ear to ear, razor nearby. For 150 years, the island kept silent.
Now marine biologist Lennon Wilder returns to the island she swore she'd left forever-and to Grey Sutton, the man she's never forgotten. Tired of loneliness and the discontented life she's built, she's ready to fight for a different future. But reconciling with Grey means coming to terms with everything she ran from.
The lighthouse cottage is long gone, but its foundation scars the sand. When Brigitte's journal and a cache of jewels surface from forgotten places and buried ruins, Raccoon Key fractures. Lennon and Grey set out to find the treasure's rightful owner, but every answer drags them deeper into greed, lies, and a mysterious death disguised as something it wasn't. The truth may cut closer to Lennon's life than she ever imagined.
Raccoon Key is a gripping dual-timeline mystery woven with coastal suspense, slow-burn second-chance romance, and the cost of truth when silence feels safer.
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In the mist of the Blue Ridge, she lost herself and found her truth.
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Separated for eight years, the carefree days of their youth dissolve into distant memories. Yet the mountains call her back, pushing her to confront secrets left behind and the betrayals that broke her trust. As old wounds reopen and long-buried truths emerge, Emrielle must decide—can she forgive those who wronged her, and can a love once born of innocence find its way back into her life?
Raisa Murray has spent seven years tending her sheep farm in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, raising a little girl, keeping secrets, and convincing herself she made the right choices. When the headline hits — Murder conviction overturned. Jase Hampton released — every wall she built comes crashing in.
Jase Hampton walked out of Central Prison exonerated, but not free. Seven years stolen. A best friend's betrayal. And the one woman he ever loved who never once wrote, never called, never came. He came back to Catawba Vale for answers. What he didn't plan on was still wanting her.
But Raisa is hiding something bigger than either of them has reckoned with. And in a small foothills town where neighbors know your business and porch lights signal more than anyone admits, secrets don't stay buried for long.
As the past presses in from every side, Raisa and Jase must decide whether the truth will destroy them — or finally set them both free.
The past is unchangeable, but the future is transformable.
When Taryn McPherson returns home with a broken heart, she has two objectives—focus on her teaching career and heal from her past. Her intentions are challenged when Rhett Huxley, the Nebraskan cowboy, returns for summer employment at her family's farm. Rhett aspires to repay his student debt and answer God's call to serve as an international missionary, and the last thing he needs is a beautiful distraction.
Will past regrets, diverging life paths, and the return of one sinister man impede their chance at love?
When love dives deeper than a multitude of scars.
Norah McPherson has never been in love. Living on an isolated Iowan farm and hiding a facial scar limits her chances of finding someone to love. Her parents brag about her beautiful sister, the belle of the small town, and do little to help Norah with her insecurities. Things change though when her grandfather hires two handsome farmhands for the summer, and both show her the attention she craves.
Trey Collins has no desire to leave his California coastal town for a desolate Iowan farmland, but his past choices have landed him in trouble, leaving him with no choice. Upon his arrival, he meets Norah and is smitten by her simple charm and beauty. If only he can keep his past hidden so she can find a way to love him too.
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