Blood, Ash, and Bone

In the Lowcountry, the past is never past.  It tends to rise again. ♦

Tai Randolph doesn’t want to hear about homicide. She’s had enough of the dark and the dangerous, and decides some time out of Atlanta and back in her hometown of Savannah is exactly what she needs to put the recent string of corpses behind her.

But then her tattooed heartbreaker of an ex-boyfriend shows up, spinning a tale of betrayal, deceit, and a stolen Civil War artifact that Tai agrees to help him recover...for a price. She's surprised to discover that her partner Trey is on the case too, representing a competing—and well-moneyed—client with eyes on the same mythical prize. As the lovers square off against each other, Tai discovers that her complicated boyfriend makes an even more intriguing adversary.

But where there’s money, there’s usually murder, this time involving Tai’s unapologetically unreconstructed kinfolk. As she unravels the clues to a 150-year-old mystery, she digs up secrets from her own past—and Trey’s—forcing a confrontation with a ruthless killer, and with her own willingness to do whatever it takes to save everything that matters.