The Last Occupant

When Maggie Driver purchases an old home tucked away on the edge of Hawthorn Mountain, she knows she isn't buying just four walls and a piece of land.

The realtor gives her the history every buyer should know-the house's final occupant was Evelyn Haywood, a woman whose name became whispered throughout the mountain after the brutal murder of her husband in August of 1964.

The story was written off as a tragedy. A closed case. A piece of Hawthorn Mountain's darker history.

But Maggie has always been drawn to the stories people leave behind. As she restores the forgotten rooms of the house, she begins uncovering pieces of Evelyn's life that never made it into the records-old photographs, hidden letters, and secrets carefully buried beneath decades of silence.

Because houses remember the people who lived inside them.

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A book from the collection of the Hawthorn Mountain Novels

"Every Hawthorn Mountain novel stands on its own. Different characters. Different genres. One mountain where every story begins with something the mountain never forgot."