The Keeper
She kept the truth for twenty years. Her daughter will keep it no longer.
For twenty years, everyone told Linda Caldwell she was paranoid. They said grief over her best friend's murder had consumed her. That she was inventing patterns, seeing killers in shadows, destroying her life chasing ghosts.
But Linda knew the truth: Sarah Bennett's death wasn't random. Neither were the eleven other women who vanished from southern Indiana over three decades. Linda documented everything—dates, locations, connections—hidden in journals no one else could read.
Then Linda died. And her daughter Emma found the journals.
Now Emma must decode her mother's research and finish a twenty-year investigation into a serial killer so careful, so patient, so perfectly hidden that he murdered twelve women without anyone noticing. A killer who's respected, trusted, beloved.
A killer who will do anything to stay hidden.
The Benefactor
Every town has a founding family. Not every family deserves to be found.
Emma Caldwell thought it was over.
Mark Caldwell—serial killer, her stepfather—convicted. Thirteen consecutive life sentences. Six weeks of testimony that finally vindicated her mother's twenty-year investigation. The town of Moores Hill, Indiana could move on.
Then the FBI calls.
Mark wants to make a deal. He claims his crimes were only the beginning. That someone else funded the operation. Someone still out there. Someone who knows Emma is coming.
When Agent Karen Baker is found dead in a house fire the same night Emma cracks an encrypted drive, the investigation explodes beyond anything her mother could have imagined. A founding family. A network spanning six states. And a founding secret buried beneath Carnegie Hall since 1854.
Every town has a founding family. Not every family deserves to be found.
The Custodian
Some ground was never meant to be built on.
Coming April 2026
Emma Caldwell exposed The Benefactor. She uncovered the network spanning six states. She thought she understood the scope of what her mother had been investigating for twenty years.
She was wrong.
When Emma discovers Robert Moore's encrypted journal, she learns the truth: the Aldrich family wasn't just protecting a network. They were protecting something far older. Seven locations across the world. Seven sites where the ground remembers. And one man who has been watching for over a century, waiting for someone to understand.
Now Emma must make a choice: Walk away and let the pattern continue, or step into the role her mother unknowingly prepared her for. Some ground was never meant to be built on. But someone has to stand watch.
The Custodian. Book 3 of The Moores Hill Thriller Series. April 2026.