Blackwater Bay Bonds Trilogy-The Drowned Bride

Some vows should never have been made. Some brides refuse to stay buried.When Addy Marris returns to Blackwater Bay for her grandmother's funeral, she expects grief, old secrets, and the kind of small-town whispers she escaped years ago.She does not expect a drowned bride to rise from the past.Ada Lorne vanished before her wedding generations ago, leaving behind rumors, cursed water, and a town determined to forget her name. But when Addy inherits her grandmother's crumbling house and a legacy of dangerous witchcraft, Ada's death becomes impossible to ignore. The dead are knocking. The tide is changing. And Blackwater Bay's oldest families will kill to keep their secrets buried.Sheriff Luke Thorne knows the town is hiding something. He also knows Addy should have stayed away from him.Years ago, he dragged her out of Blackwater House and then broke both their hearts by disappearing from her life. Now Addy is back, the bond between them is waking, and Luke's wolf recognizes what his human side has tried to deny: Addy is not just his unfinished past. She may be the only woman who can help him survive the curse written into his blood.As Addy and Luke investigate Ada's murder, they uncover a sinister legacy of stolen vows, erased witnesses, shifter law, witch blood, and a powerful man using the town's history as a weapon. Every clue pulls them deeper into Blackwater House, where the walls remember what the living deny and the dead demand more than justice.They demand witness.To break the curse, Addy must claim the power her grandmother left behind, Luke must defy the dark inheritance meant to own him, and together they must face a truth Blackwater Bay has drowned for generations.Because the bride was not the first victim.And if Addy and Luke fail, she will not be the last.The Drowned Bride is Book One of The Blackwater Bay Bonds, a witch and shifter paranormal romantic suspense trilogy filled with gothic coastal atmosphere, murder mystery, dangerous magic, wolf-shifter heat, small-town secrets, and a romance forged in choice, trust, and supernatural fire.

Pagina's: 426, Paperback, Trevor Jensen