Franklin County

Hawkins Cove, Tennessee, 1948. A once-promising lawyer turned out by small-town politics, Cassandra Cheshire wants nothing more than to fade into the background. But Hawkins Cove never forgets-or forgives-and trouble has a way of finding her. When an old neighbor dies suddenly, his beautiful young widow doesn't waste time moving on. The sheriff shrugs. The district attorney looks the other way. But Cassandra sees the truth nobody else wants to face: men are dying, and charm is the cover for something far deadlier. As the body count grows, so does the town's silence. Every question Cassandra asks paints a bigger target on her back. Because in Hawkins Cove, secrets don't just stay buried-they kill. A Quiet Death is a dark, slow-burning Southern gothic crime novel about pride, power, and the cost of refusing to keep quiet.

A vanished trail. A hidden truth. A woman who won't back down. Franklin County, Tennessee, 1930s-Three men step into the mist-covered woods of Bear Mountain and never return. Locals whisper that secrets don't stay buried for long, but this time the truth proves as elusive as the wilderness itself. Dr. Lucy Cameron isn't a woman to cross. A physician and medical researcher, she's spent years standing apart in a town that resents a woman with power. When the sheriff asks for her help-not for her medical skills, but because she knows the mountain better than anyone-Lucy finds herself drawn into something far more dangerous than she imagined. What begins as a search for missing men soon unearths something darker. Corruption runs deep. Power goes unchecked. And someone is willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden. With danger closing in and no one left to trust, Lucy must decide how far she's willing to go to expose the truth. Because in Franklin County, justice is a myth-and survival always carries a price. For readers of Southern noir, fearless heroines, and historical mysteries steeped in atmosphere, Snake Pond delivers a taut, unflinching journey into a world where justice blurs into revenge.