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Tide of Lies

Lampoil & Violets Series • Book 1

The bone carved with a symbol should have stayed buried. When forensic consultant Maren Mendoza finds human remains on Greyhaven's pristine beach, she recognizes the mark cut deep into the femur—the same crest worn by the town's most powerful families. The same symbol that got a girl killed thirty years ago.

Someone poisoned the medical examiner to keep him quiet. Someone is watching Maren's every move. And someone just sent her a photo of her own window with a simple message: STOP DIGGING, MENDOZA.

Detective Jack Fallon lost his badge for asking the wrong questions. Journalist Ivy Holder lost her career for telling inconvenient truths. Now they're Maren's only allies in a town where the city council meets in the boathouses after dark, where evidence disappears into basement archives, and where girls who know too much end up feeding the fish.

The Protectors have kept Greyhaven's secrets for three decades. Tonight, the secrets fight back. They should have let the dead stay dead.

Screams From The Grave

Lampoil & Violets Series • Book 2

When an excavator at Greyhaven's waterfront lifts more than soil, the bones it reveals drag the coastal town back into a nightmare it never stopped feeding. Forensic Expert Maren Mendoza and her K9 partner, Mako, are called in alongside Detective Jack Fallon—and the cut marks whisper a name that should be buried: the Washington State Ripper. But the timeline is wrong, the geography is wrong… and the dead won't stay quiet.

As journalist Ivy Holder fans a media firestorm, Maren's razor-edged intuition—half science, half psychic—points to a local hand guiding the killings for decades, protected by people who write the rules. Greyhaven's prosperity, its politics, its past—all of it is threaded to a ledger of missing women.

To stop a hunter who never retired, Maren must read the echoes in bone, guided by her dead grandmother. Before the town's next groundbreaking becomes another grave.

The Sunken Road

Lampoil & Violets Series • Book 3 • $2.49

When the tide gives up a girl, the truth begins to surface. Maren Mendoza, forensic specialist on a long overdue holiday, never meant to find a body on the Sunken Road. But the young dancer pulled from the tidal flats wasn't meant to die—and she wasn't the only one.

Washed, braided, and left to be found, the girl has no name, no ID, and no one reporting her missing. Until Ivy Holder's public appeal sends the internet searching—and a familiar face comes forward.

As Maren and Detective Jack Fallon dig into Celia's last hours, a darker pattern emerges: a predator hiding behind trust, grooming talent, and letting the lake absolve his sins. And when another girl vanishes, the investigation turns into a race against a man who has been perfecting his method for years.