The Ashes of Ashbrook

In Ashbrook, Massachusetts, secrets are buried deep in the earth.

Rebecca Graves has spent twelve years trying not to look back. As an FBI analyst at Quantico, she has built a life far from the suffocating town where she was born and the incomprehensible suicide of her older brother in the ruins of the old mill.

But Ashbrook always finds a way to pull you back.

When Sarah Koski, a brilliant seventeen-year-old student, is found dead on the high school baseball field with traces of gray dirt under her nails, Rebecca instantly recognizes a familiar wound. Forced to confront the ghosts she left behind and now a stranger among her own neighbors, she must navigate a labyrinth of silence to uncover what is truly happening in the place she once called home.

She soon discovers that in a town where everyone greets each other at the grocery store and shares the same old legends, asking the wrong questions can bring everyone's world crashing down. Because some truths are better left buried.

The Ashes of Ashbrook is a relentless, atmospheric, and masterfully crafted thriller. A noir novel about the weight of guilt, the complicity of small towns, and the exact price of looking the other way.