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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 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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A lost foal. A lonely child. A path that calls them both.

In a quiet valley brushed by starlight and shadow, a young Appaloosa colt named ShadowPatch is born beneath a sky full of stories. Across that same land, a child wrestles with change, uncertainty, and the ache of being unseen. When their worlds collide, something ancient stirs—a...

Courage isn’t the absence of fear—it’s the quiet decision to keep going.
Thirteen-year-old Kieren never thought he’d be chosen for anything, let alone a magical path that calls only to the brave. But when a flickering light leads him into an enchanted world, he meets Emberhoof, a flame-maned Akhal-Teke who speaks not with words—but with fire,...

Rivermane and the Healing Heart

In a realm where nature breathes magic and legends walk among the living, one girl holds the power to heal more than just the land...

When thirteen-year-old Liora discovers a hidden valley untouched by time, she stumbles upon an ancient bond with Rivermane—a mystical, silver-maned horse with a heart as wild as the...

Stormtail and the Strength Below is a magical coming-of-age tale where myth meets emotion and courage runs deep beneath the surface.

Fifteen-year-old Tristan feels invisible in a world that praises the loud and fearless. Bullied at school and burdened by silence, he thinks strength is something he’ll never find. But when a thunderstorm tears...

Isabelle has always lived by the rules—her rules. Color-coded schedules, perfect grades, never a single step out of line. Being the “perfect daughter” has earned her praise, but inside, she feels like a bird trapped in a cage she built herself.

Everything changes when her family spends the summer in Windmere Ridge, a rugged valley where the wind...

Jasper is twelve, silver-tongued, and never at a loss for a story—even if it’s far from the truth. His tall tales keep him safe, admired, and just out of reach of the consequences he fears. But when his deceit spirals out of control, Jasper finds himself paired with Nightwhisper, a hauntingly beautiful Friesian with eyes like storm clouds and a...