Helenshivers Stories

Twenty years ago, four teenagers survived a nightmare that changed Southport forever. Before the bloodshed, before the Fisherman came for them, Barry Cox and Helen Shivers secretly gave up their newborn daughter for adoption, believing they were too young to give her the life she deserved. At the same time, haunted by guilt and fearing the killer stalking them, Julie James and Ray Bronson made the heartbreaking decision to place their infant son with another family. The truth died with Barry and Helen... or so everyone believed. Now, Madelyn Grace Carter, a successful true-crime podcaster, arrives in Southport hoping to uncover the real story behind the infamous Fisherman murders. Across town, Ethan Brooks, a rookie sheriff's deputy, begins his first day under Sheriff Ray Bronson, unaware that the man training him is his biological father. When both receive anonymous messages revealing the identities of their birth parents, they are drawn into a deadly game someone has spent decades preparing. As old secrets resurface, forgotten lies are exposed, and another killer dons the infamous rain slicker and hook, Madelyn and Ethan discover that the Fisherman's legacy never truly ended-it simply waited for the next generation. With friends disappearing, cryptic messages appearing, and the line between ally and killer growing thinner by the hour, the children of Southport's darkest secret must uncover who is behind the new murders before history repeats itself. Because in Southport... Some secrets never stay buried. And someone still knows what they did last summer.

The truth survived the fire... but so did the nightmare. After uncovering the shocking secret that they are the children Barry Cox, Helen Shivers, Ray Bronson, and Julie James gave up for adoption before the events of 1997, Madelyn Grace Cox and Ethan Brooks find themselves pulled even deeper into Southport's blood-soaked history. When a mysterious map hidden inside Helen's silver locket points to the abandoned Black Gull Lighthouse, the two set out with Ray and Julie to uncover what Barry and Helen died trying to protect. But every answer leads to another lie, and every secret comes with a body count. A forgotten fifth friend... a vengeful killer hiding behind the Fisherman legend... and a conspiracy that began long before Ben Willis's reign of terror threaten to destroy the only family Madelyn and Ethan have left. As storms rage over the Carolina coast and the Black Gull Lighthouse awakens after decades of silence, Madelyn must decide whether to keep running from the past-or face the darkness that has hunted her since before she was born. Because some legacies are inherited. Others are written in blood. And someone still knows what they did last summer.

I know what you did last summer! Laila Carmichael has lived in Southport, North Carolina her entire life. She grew up hearing ghost stories of a man in a fisherman's slicker; she just never expected to face him head on. After a messy fling with her childhood best friend, Laila finds herself at his engagement party where things get even messer. Then, the night takes a devastating blow as it ends in tragedy. One year later, everything comes to light.

The summer was supposed to be unforgettable. Julie, Ray, Helen, Barry, and Evie Hart. Then came the accident. The secret. The blood. Now someone knows what we did, and one by one, we're paying the price. Book 1 Julie x oc