Deadman's Daughter

DEAD MAN’S DAUGHTER
A Gritty Romantic Thriller Series
By Trudy Myrland


They were born in blood. Raised in the shadows of monsters.

Each woman carries a name the world won’t forget—a surname spoken in courtroom whispers, media headlines, and unsolved case files. Their fathers were killers. Predators. Legends of evil. And though the monsters are long buried, someone is digging up the past… and rewriting it in blood.

Across the country, women connected to infamous murderers are being hunted. Their lives turned inside out. Their secrets unearthed. Each new victim bears the signature of a serial killer who’s already dead. The evidence points in one terrifying direction—back at the daughters themselves.

Now, these women must choose: vanish into obscurity, or confront the past they swore they'd escape. But danger has a way of showing up wrapped in warm smiles and familiar eyes. And love, when it finally comes, doesn’t ask permission.

From small-town shame to big-city secrets, each book follows a different daughter as she’s pulled into the nightmare she thought she left behind. Alongside her—sometimes reluctantly, sometimes obsessively—is a man willing to risk everything to save her. Even if it means breaking her heart… or losing his own.

Passion collides with peril. Trust comes with teeth. And legacy? It’s never what it seems.

For readers who devour Lisa Jewell, Nora Roberts’ darker side, and Meagan Brandy, Dead Man’s Daughter is an emotionally charged, twist-heavy romance thriller series about women born into fear—and the fire it takes to burn free.

Blood Ties: Book One (Deadman’s Daughter 1)

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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: BOOK TWO (Deadman’s Daughter 2)

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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,...

Mercy in the Blood: Book Three (Deadman’s Daughter 3)

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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...

Little Black Lies: BOOK FOUR (Deadman’s Daughter 4)

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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...

The Daughter He Chose: BOOK FIVE (Deadman’s Daughter 5)

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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...

Stay Dead, Darling: BOOK SIX (Deadman’s Daughter 6)

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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...

The Forgotten Room: BOOK SEVEN (Deadman’s Daughter 7)

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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: BOOK EIGHT (Deadman’s Daughter 8)

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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...