The Reservoir Year: A Novel of Hidden Letters, Deadly Secrets, and the Things We Leave Behind - Softcover

Keys, Erga

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798161921739

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

She came home to settle an estate. She found a locked room, a brass key, and a secret someone killed to protect.

Maren Cole hasn’t spoken to her mother in eleven years. When Evelyn dies of what the coroner calls "natural causes," Maren returns to her small hometown for the first time in a decade to sell the house. She expects dust, paperwork, and the quiet grief of a relationship that ended long before the funeral.

What she finds instead is a hidden room behind a bookshelf, a stack of unsent love letters to a woman named June, and a brass key that doesn't match any lock in the house.

As Maren unravels the truth about her mother's secret life—a decades-long romance, a conspiracy reaching the mayor's office, and a murder disguised as a heart attack—she realizes the woman she thought she knew was a stranger, and the estrangement she carried was not a rejection, but a sacrifice.

With the help of Theo, a sharp-eyed contractor who notices more than he should, and June, the woman her mother loved enough to die for, Maren must race to uncover the evidence before the most powerful man in town buries the truth forever.

The Reservoir Year is a standalone literary mystery about the secrets mothers keep, the daughters who inherit them, and the ordinary Tuesdays that hold more truth than we ever dare to read.

Perfect for fans of atmospheric small-town mysteries, emotional women's fiction, and books like The Midnight Library and Big Little Lies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798161921739
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
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