Red Hunting Hat

After losing her parents in a car crash at age seven, Madlyn Clery was raised by two kind-hearted women in New Orleans. But kindness can't fill in the blank spaces where family should be. Armed with a red hunting hat, a typewriter, and a battered cassette deck, she sets off on a cross-country road trip to piece together a legacy she was never meant to inherit.

She doesn't know where she's going. Only that it starts with a letter, a photograph, and a name-Caulfield.

Tracing the roots of her estranged family leads her through forgotten graveyards, old love stories, and the unraveling mystery of a man named Holden, who once called everyone a phony and may have died alone on the Oregon coast. But some ghosts don't rest easy-and some truths are buried for a reason.

Red Hunting Hat is a lyrical, slow-burning literary journey about memory, music, and the haunting weight of unfinished stories. For anyone who's ever wanted to know where they came from-and who they're becoming.