The Captain's House: A Harbor Light Inn Cozy Mystery: 6

For six winters, Nora Marsh thought she knew every secret her inn was keeping. She was wrong about the one in the foundation.The Harbor Light Inn has a rule older than anyone living: the cove is not for selling - and no one remembers why. Nora has kept the rule for three years without asking. Then a buyer arrives with a surveyor, a clouded old deed, and every intention of finding out what the Marsh family has been guarding all this time.So Nora finally opens the sealed letter her great-aunt left her. And the thing under the seaward corner of the house. And a hundred and forty years of silence.What she finds is not a clue to someone else's crime. It is her own family's - the founding wrong the whole town was built to forget, kept dark by every keeper of the house before her, handed down with the inn itself. The cat on the hearth has been carrying the truth in his name the entire time, and no one knew to listen.Now the secret is hers to keep or to tell, in the dark or in the light. And the woman who came to Gull Harbor to sell a dead woman's house and run must decide what a house is really for - and whether some things buried are meant to be brought home.The luminous finale of the Harbor Light Inn Mysteries. Cozy, clever, and quietly devastating. Recipes included.

Pagina's: 167, Paperback, Independently published