The Old Cedar Chest

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.

An antique cedar hope chest. A hidden panel. A century-spanning vendetta.

This unusual, faith-filled thriller and suspense novella series is about the unexpected adventures faced by an architectural historian when the unseen realm affects her clients' properties. In this first book of the series, readers should not miss the exciting prologue, which sets the stage for this story and threads its way to a showdown conclusion in Book 3, The Freedom Staircase.

Mercedes Annalee Ellison held her Great-Great-Grand Aunt's fragile journal and a tattered manila envelope, puzzling about whether these items would change her life. Her intuition screamed that they would, and the way they had come into her possession would make any skeptic pause. She wanted to bolt, to flee what loomed ahead.

Distractions were not welcome in her life right now. She was an architectural historian with three great jobs lined up for the summer—and a problem with her boyfriend.

But before her first day with her new client, Mercedes finds herself entangled in a diabolical vendetta against her family over disputed land in England. She desperately searches for answers about why she is an unsustpecting target for something that happened back in the year 1900. A man murdered her ancestor, Claire Ellison, one night in an eerie storm, and only a miracle will save Mercedes from the same fate. Can she survive and accept her calling and destiny as part of the legendary Ellison family?

Reader note: This novella is for readers who enjoy moving quickly through thriller and suspense stories, and will have special appeal for readers who like elements of the supernatural and characters who live their Christian faith in all situations. It contains a sprinkling of Scriptural references from the CSB version of the Christian Bible.. The series is inspired by interviews with friends the author met over the years who had true stories of strange experiences in their lives.