The Widow's Watch
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Perched on the windswept cliffs of Black Hollow, the Wakefield estate looms like a monument to tragedy. Three husbands. Three untimely deaths. And Eleanor Wakefield-the elegant widow who outlived them all-remains the only constant.
The town whispers, but no one dares confront her. Until Detective Charles Whitaker arrives, carrying a storm in his coat pocket and a letter from the last man to vanish. A letter that hints at secrets buried in the bones of the cliffs and the cold, sea-salted walls of the house.
But Eleanor is no ordinary suspect. She's clever. Composed. Dangerous.
As rain lashes the windows and the fire crackles low, a deadly game begins-cat and mouse cloaked in civility. Because in this house, justice walks with ghosts... and not all of them are ready to stay quiet.
In a house where the tide washes up bones, truth and murder are only ever a breath apart.
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