Kindred Lies

Amethyst Keane has never had a place to call home—just a string of towns, a string of goodbyes, and the magazine she built from nothing to prove she didn't need anyone. At seventeen, she stopped trying to belong. Now, almost three years later, she's independent, successful, and utterly alone.

Then an assignment sends her to a small coastal town chasing a story: the legend of the ghost that haunts Ghost Peak Island. She expects folklore. She doesn't expect Cooper or the unfamiliar, terrifying pull of wanting to stay.

But the deeper Amethyst digs into the island's restless spirit, the more she uncovers about her own family—the secrets buried for a reason and the lies that were never meant to surface. The closer she gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to ignore an impossible question: what if the ghost of Ghost Peak Island isn't a stranger to her at all?