THE PRICE OF BLACKWOOD COVE

When freelance real estate appraiser Maya Vance is sent to Blackwood Cove, she expects a routine job. Her assignment is simple: value a decaying municipal pier so a developer can bulldoze it.But Blackwood Cove isn't just a quiet, foggy Pacific Northwest town. It's a community holding its breath in the dark.During an historically low tide, Maya spots a rusted brass lockbox wedged deep in the exposed salt-marsh mud. Inside is the lost ship's log of the S.S. Osprey-the tourist ferry that ran aground twenty years ago, taking twelve innocent lives down with it.The final, frantic entry scratches open a decades-old scar: "The lines have been physically severed. Someone cut the lines... God forgive them, they wanted this to happen." The accident was a lie. The tragedy was an insurance scam.Suddenly, Maya's routine appraisal becomes a race for survival. The town's shiny new school, its paved roads, and its local businesses were all bought with the blood of those twelve passengers. And the founding families-led by a fiercely protective local sheriff-will do whatever it takes to keep the dark foundation of their wealth buried.With her cell service cut off, her rental car's tires slashed, and the fog closing in, Maya must team up with a haunted local outcast to find the physical proof before the town's hierarchy of silence claims two more victims.Because in Blackwood Cove, the mud doesn't like to give things back.

Pagina's: 38, Paperback, Independently published