A Map of Missing Rooms

>When architectural conservator **Mara Venn** returns to the coastal town of Bellwether after her mother's death, she expects grief, paperwork, and a house full of memories she would rather leave untouched. Then she measures the upstairs hallway. Nearly four feet of the house are missing. Behind a concealed wall, Mara discovers a room that does not exist on any official plan-and inside it, evidence connected to a devastating flood thirty-nine years earlier, seven forgotten houses, and a young woman named Celia Vale who was declared dead without ever being found. As Mara follows erased maps, altered records, hidden photographs, and testimony the town would rather forget, one disturbing truth becomes impossible to ignore: The flood did not simply destroy part of Bellwether. **Someone decided what would be saved.** And Mara's mother knew exactly what happened. But the deeper Mara goes, the less certain the past becomes-and the closer the mystery moves to her own identity. Because the most dangerous secret in Bellwether may not be who disappeared. It may be **who was deliberately left off the map**. **A Map of Missing Rooms** is an atmospheric literary mystery about family secrets, buried histories, impossible choices, and the difference between what is lost-and what someone chose to erase.