Heartwood

Heartwood"The best thriller of 2025." The Boston Globe * "Genius." The Washington Post "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail. Deep in the Maine woods, an experienced hiker goes missing. She is forty two year old Valerie Gillis, who

Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother

Despite discrimination—even because of it—women who started as clerks

matching exercises

Which version of his mother is true

The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers

● The Lost Metal

until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash course with her past

and terrible loss

writing Simon Snow fan fiction

Yet no one can challenge the North Wind without paying a price

eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow

an irresistible