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Cassidy Lane came to The Elms to hide from her past. She found a secret that wouldn't stay buried. After a scandal destroys her journalism career, Cassidy Lane's only refuge is a dead-end job at The Elms, a decaying, once-grand hotel on a sleepy lakeside town. She thought the biggest danger was boredom. She was wrong. It starts with a mysterious man in a peacoat reporting blood in a vacant room. Then a missing influencer, a red coat stuffed in a laundry chute, and a gold brooch that belonged to a hotel heiress buried twenty years ago.
The local police aren't interested. But Cassidy's reporter instincts are screaming. Her investigation pulls her into a web of old money, older lies, and a cold case that was never really cold. A case everyone in Whitford Hollow wants to keep closed-especially the powerful family who owns the hotel. Because at The Elms, the past isn't past. It's waiting. And the secret at the heart of the hotel is one someone is willing to kill for to keep hidden.