When the past refuses to stay buried, the truth can explode.

The night before the long-awaited return of the Highwater Revival Music Festival, an explosion shatters the calm—and among the debris, investigators find the body of a woman who didn’t die in the blast. She was murdered.

Dr. Kerry Dearborne is hired in her capacity of a private investigator to help the police unravel the tangled threads: the cause of the explosion, the identity of a killer, and the secrets buried beneath more than a decade of silence. But as the investigation deepens, her confidence begins to crack. Someone is watching. Someone knows she’s close to the truth.

Meanwhile, she’s been distracted by a high-profile murder trial in Lake Pines, where her testimony as an expert witness could mean freedom—or a lifetime behind bars—for a man she believes is guilty. When the trial takes a shocking turn, the fallout threatens to expose a dark connection.

As old sins resurface and the circle of suspects tightens, one question haunts her every move: Was the dead woman caught in someone else’s crossfire—or was she the key to uncovering a far more fatal truth?

A taut, atmospheric mystery of buried secrets, fragile loyalties, and the deadly choices of the past that all point to a fatal truth.

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Set against the backdrop of the idyllic, but fictional, lakeside town of Lake Pines, A FATAL TRUTH is the thirteenth book in a gripping mystery series. With twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the final page, this is a story about the lengths we'll go to protect our secrets, and the dangerous consequences that can arise when those secrets are revealed.