The Woman on Tussey Mountain: A Matriarch Mystery

Before the next Matriarch teaching book arrives, M.K. Spryte opens the door to her first fiction release, a grief mystery born from real friendship, real loss, and the sacred work of remembering women fully. In 2017, Spryte was living in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, studying at Penn State and trying to build a new life from the pieces survival had left behind. Then her best friend Tawanna came to visit from Texas for eight unforgettable days. There was laughter. Karaoke. Campus stone. Mountain air. Women talking freely at kitchen tables. A friendship strong enough to make ordinary moments feel sacred. Then Tawanna died. Years later, grief pulls Spryte back toward Tussey Mountain with Tawanna's daughter, Angel, and the truth becomes harder to ignore. The mountain remembers what men tried to bury. A forgotten woman's name rises from old stone. A key appears. Crows gather. And the story of a so-called "bride of the ridge" begins to crack open into something older, darker, and more honest. The Woman on Tussey Mountain is a Matriarch Mystery about friendship, grief, witchcraft, memory, and the way women keep calling each other back from erasure. This is fiction. The mystery is fictionalized. But the love is real. The grief is real. Some people in these pages are real people honored with care, while the supernatural mystery, legends, villains, and hidden histories belong to the story world. Part women's fiction, part supernatural mystery, part sacred remembrance, this novel is for adult readers who understand that love does not end just because a body leaves the earth. For every woman who has lost a friend too soon. For every daughter carrying a mother. For every human who has had to bury someone before they were ready. For every mountain that kept the truth.

Pagina's: 124, Paperback, Independently published