The Undertow

She came to catalog a dead woman's letters. She didn't expect to fall for the man everyone warned her about.

Archivist Wren Calloway takes the commission because she's broke and because the house is famous: Blackwater Point, a crumbling coastal estate where, thirty years ago, a young bride vanished without a trace. Wren's job is simple — organize the family's private papers before the estate is sold. She doesn't plan on finding a locked room. She doesn't plan on finding letters that don't match the official story. And she doesn't plan on Silas Cade.

Silas is the last Cade standing — the son who left Blackwater Point at eighteen and swore never to return, until his grandmother's death dragged him back to close up the house he hates. He's furious to find a stranger sorting through family secrets he's spent his whole life trying to bury. But when Wren starts receiving anonymous notes warning her to stop digging — and someone breaks into her cottage the night she finds the missing woman's diary — Silas becomes the only person standing between Wren and whoever wants that thirty-year-old secret to stay buried.

Trapped together in an isolated house with a killer who knows every hidden passage better than they do, Wren and Silas have no choice but to rely on each other — even as their investigation drags Silas's family's darkest sins into the light, and Wren realizes the man protecting her may be hiding the biggest secret of all.

As the threats escalate from warnings to violence, Wren has to decide how far she'll go for the truth — and Silas has to decide whether protecting the woman he's falling for means finally telling her everything.

The house has kept its secret for thirty years. It's about to run out of places to hide it.

Tropes: Only One Bed • Forced Proximity • Gothic Suspense • Hidden Past • Amateur Sleuth Heroine • Possessive/Protective Hero