The Last Dried Rose

On the anniversary of her mother's death, Isabella Vale receives a package with no return address. Inside rests a single dried rose-one that should not exist. Every rose from her mother's garden was destroyed years ago, along with the past everyone in Mistwood insists is over.

The rose becomes a warning.

As Isabella begins to search for its origin, she uncovers fragments of a history carefully erased by silence, authority, and fear. Her path crosses with Adrian Thorn, a quiet stranger tied to one of the town's oldest families and to secrets that were never meant to resurface. With each truth revealed, the story behind her parents' "accidental" deaths fractures further.

Mistwood is a town built on preservation-of reputation, of appearances, of lies. The deeper Isabella digs, the more she realizes that grief was not the end of her story, but the beginning of someone else's crime.

Some memories fade.
Some truths stay buried.
And some roses refuse to die.