The House at Blackwater

Some secrets don’t stay buried. They wait.
After seven years away, Mara returns to the small town of Blackwater for her grandmother’s funeral, expecting nothing more than grief and old memories.
Instead, she finds a warning waiting in her childhood bedroom.
Then Jonah Reed—the boy she once trusted, and hasn’t seen in seven years—appears with a disturbing revelation: Emily Hart never ran away.
As Mara begins searching through her grandmother’s belongings, she uncovers photographs, letters, recordings, and a red notebook that point toward a secret Blackwater has protected for years. Her mother, Claire, may have known the truth. Emily may still be alive. And someone is watching Mara to make sure the past stays buried.
With Jonah beside her, Mara follows a trail of clues from Eleanor’s attic to the abandoned Blackwater Mill, uncovering stolen money, hidden identities, and a town built on years of fear and silence.
But the deeper Mara digs, the more personal the mystery becomes.
Because sometimes finding the truth means discovering that the people you loved were never who you thought they were.
And in Blackwater, the past is not finished with her.