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It wasn’t the cold that got them. It was the company.

When a freak blizzard slams into Soreass Creek, seven very unlucky townsfolk find themselves snowed in at a remote hunting cabin with no heat, no liquor, and exactly one sleeping bag too few. That’s when the real storm begins.

Inside the cabin:
Jo McGraw — ranch boss, sarcasm expert, and...

Jessie June LaBelle didn’t just lose the Rodeo Queen crown.
She lost her dignity, her boyfriend, and—depending on who you ask—her sense of balance when her flag routine ended in actual flames.

One minute she was waving to the crowd.
The next, her borrowed pony was choking on firework smoke and the grandstand was screaming like the circus had come...

In Soreass Creek, Idaho, news travels faster than a church gossip chain, and Mabel’s “passing” has already set the whole town buzzing. Who’s getting her land? Who’s inheriting her china? And which cousin will throw the first punch at the will reading?

But while half the town is mourning and the other half is fighting over her stuff, Mabel is in...

When the new pastor rolled into Soreass Creek, Idaho, he thought his mission was simple—save souls, mend hearts, and maybe repaint the church sign.

He didn’t count on the Tipsy Cow.

The Tipsy Cow is more than a bar. It’s a community center with whiskey. A courthouse with a pool table. And now—thanks to one very unfortunate outdoor baptism—a crime...

The goat is gone. The flowers are dead. The ex-wife is furious.

Flame—the most ill-tempered goat in Idaho—has vanished.

Last seen destroying Linda Boone’s prize-winning flowerbed, he’s now the center of a town-wide scandal. Linda, the fire chief’s ex-wife, is demanding justice, an arrest, or at least the goat’s head on a platter. Preferably before...

Some folks find themselves. Others get dumped there by a busted truck, a dead uncle, and a Golden Retriever with trust issues.

Jolene “Jo” McGraw didn’t plan to inherit a falling-down ranch, a fridge full of expired moonshine, or a front porch that doubles as a confession booth for half the town. But when her late uncle’s will names her the sole...

In Her Father’s Name
A Deadman’s Daughter Novel – Book Eight

Eve Harper thought the past was finally buried.
But the bodies keep rising.
And each one wears her father’s name like a brand.

A girl is found on a church altar, smiling with her mouth sewn shut.
Another disappears beneath a floorboard lined with children’s shoes.
The message is clear: this...

Some girls bury the past. Mila Knox became it.

For fifteen years, Mila hasn’t spoken a word. Not since the night her family was slaughtered inside their home—and she was found clutching a bloodstained knife. The case was never solved. Her silence never explained. Her father disappeared. And Mila? She became the girl who didn’t scream.

Now, the...

They called her father the Drowned Bride Killer.
They never asked what Harper saw that night.

At sixteen, Harper Wynn stopped speaking. Not out loud, not to anyone. Her sister Lily was gone—drowned in Starling Lake wearing their mother’s wedding dress—and by morning, their father was in handcuffs. The police said the case was closed. The town said...

She thought the worst was behind her. Until the truth came calling—in her mother’s voice.

Dani Rivers was adopted at eight years old, pulled from the wreckage of a life no child should have survived. Her new family gave her everything: safety, love, and a fresh name that carried no stain of the past. She was never supposed to find out who she...

Noel Sterling has lived in a world of shadows and whispers, her blindness a shield as much as a sentence. Raised in silence after her father—infamously dubbed the “Angelmaker”—was convicted of a string of ritualistic murders, Noel has learned to navigate life with caution and grace. But just as she begins to trust the quiet, something starts to...

Jessa Monroe was the good girl. The quiet one. The girl who kept her head down while her father—“The Carpenter”—was quietly tried and buried in local legend as the most brutal killer the county had ever known.

But even monsters need apprentices.

Years later, Jessa is living off the grid in a forgotten stretch of Oregon when a documentary crew...

The Body Kept Score
A Deadman’s Daughters Novel

By Trudy Myrland

Some scars you can see.
Others you inherit.

Lark Welles has spent a lifetime running from the flames. Daughter of a cult leader who orchestrated one of the most horrific mass self-immolations in American history, she’s built a quiet life under a new name, buried her past in concrete,...

She’s the daughter of a killer. But what if the darkness runs deeper than blood?

Eve Harper has spent years trying to disappear—new towns, new names, no attachments. It’s the only way to survive when your father is The Glass Killer, a charismatic psychopath who turned murder into an art form by displaying his victims in storefront windows. Eve...

The land remembers. Even when we try to forget.
On the McGraw ranch, where secrets settle in the dust and memories linger between fence posts, the past has always ridden close. But in Secrets on the Ridge, the final chapter of The Legacy in the Dust Series, old ghosts rise not to haunt—but to ask for reckoning.

Adelene McGraw has carried the...

Some ghosts rattle chains. Others hum lullabies beneath cottonwoods.

At Canola Creek Ranch, silence has never meant peace. It’s where memories linger in the fields, where boots echo long after footsteps fade, and where every broken fence post seems to remember a story no one dares to retell. Ghost of Canola Creek picks up the McGraw family legacy...

Ben McGraw has always tried to be the kind of man his mother raised him to be—honest, hardworking, and fiercely loyal to family. But on the rugged hills of North Central Idaho, where blood and land are tangled as tightly as barbed wire, loyalty can cost more than a man is willing to pay.

Adelene McGraw, once the quiet backbone of the family...

The past never truly stays buried—not when it’s soaked into the land you walk, the walls you sleep beside, and the blood that pulses in your veins.

Adelene McGraw never asked to inherit the family ranch. She certainly didn’t ask to inherit its secrets. But when her father dies and the legacy falls to her shoulders, she’s forced to confront...

In the rugged hills of North Central Idaho, 1949, John McGraw returns from World War II with calloused hands and haunted eyes. He carries the weight of a legacy he never asked for—a sprawling ranch passed down from stern, violent men.

At just 22, he’s already older than his years, and when he meets Doris—a 15-year-old girl with a Kansas twang, a...