What the Walls Know – Paperback

Nora Whitfield has spent ten years bringing old buildings back to life. At Thorne Hall, on the coast of Georgia, she is a week into restoring the cellar when a wall comes down and a cavity opens behind it. Inside are bones, a scrap of fabric and a twenty-year-old question the whole town would rather leave closed.

Chief Sawyer Boone has spent those twenty years carrying the worst of that question. When a girl named Josephine Calder vanished, the town decided he knew more than he said. He has kept his temper, his badge and his silence ever since. Now the wall has spoken, and Nora is the only person who knows how to read it.

She trusts people at their word. He trusts almost no one. Neither of them expects the scaffold that falls in the dark, the break-in at the field trailer, or the kindness of the woman who keeps the town’s secrets best.

The house is giving up its history one brick at a time. Nora and Sawyer have to decide who they can believe, and how much they are willing to lose to learn the truth.

A brooding chief, an innocent preservationist and a house that has kept its secret long enough. Book 3 of No Safe Distance.