Gideon Drake

Lena Valentine wanted to leave Ashford. When a violent night on County Route 14 ends with two drivers pulled from wreckage, Lena wakes in a hospital bed—and the world insists she’s Margaret Hale.Margaret moves into Lena’s life with calm certainty: her face, her school, her parents’ home...

Fresh from divorce and desperate for a clean slate, Clara Wren inherits her grandmother’s crumbling house deep in the Ozark woods. She plans to restore it, sell it, and move on. But the locals whisper warnings, calling the women of her bloodline the “Red Women of the Ridge.” Behind locked...

Emily Thompson has always been the town's steady hand: a beloved elementary teacher, engaged, quietly ordinary. Then she wakes in the woods beside a lifeless body, mud under her nails, and no memory of how she got there. When a second corpse appears—this time in her own home—suspicions...