Hope Kane had the perfect life—until the police came pounding on her door and her husband’s gunshot answered. In a single afternoon, she loses her marriage, her name, and everything she thought was safe. Disgraced by Nick’s embezzlement and down to her last seventy-three dollars, she has no choice but to take her grieving daughter back to the coastal hometown she swore she’d never see again.Serenity Cove is exactly as she left it—except her brilliant father is dead, her stepfather drowned, and her mother is lost inside a hoarder’s house and a failing mind.Then Hope discovers her father’s hidden crime lab, and the unsolved case that consumed his final months: a murdered girl, nameless, her face waiting in a skull no one could identify. Hope was trained to give the dead their faces back. And detective Andrew Darby—who never stopped believing the “Coastal Reaper” simply learned to hide—needs exactly that gift.But someone wants those files to stay buried. As Hope and Andrew dig, the “accidents” in her family start to look like murders—and the killer is still close enough to watch.
Some files don’t stay closed. They wait and whisper.
Coming from Kregel, Spring, 2027.
