"Some bloodlines weren't meant to survive.
Emily Lyles thought escaping the church she was raised in meant leaving the past behind. But when she and Kade are forced to stay in Branch after finding a badly mangled body at Rosehill, Em realizes the haunted motel has been waiting for her all along.
A murdered woman. A room no one should have been using. A hidden well beneath the motel. And photographs of Em's sister appearing where they shouldn't.
Every clue pulls Em deeper into a history older and darker than Covenant itself—a buried legacy of bloodlines, purity, religious control, and women sacrificed to secrets no one was ever meant to uncover. But the more Em learns, the more personal the horror becomes.
Her sister was touched by this place. Her birth mother knew its danger. And Em herself may not be an outsider to the darkness at all. Something at Rosehill knows her name.
As Em and Kade race to uncover the truth behind Helen's murder, they find themselves trapped between a killer desperate to resurrect old rituals and a supernatural presence that believes Em has already been marked.
To end it, Em must face the truth of where she came from—and decide once and for all that origin is not the same as destiny."
"You can leave the house. You can cross state lines. But you can't outrun the thing that wore your sister's face.
Stranded in Branch, West Virginia, during a brutal storm, Emily takes a temporary job at the crumbling Rosehill Motel—a roadside relic with more ghosts than guests. Locals whisper about dark spirits, a disturbing basement, and room 132, where furniture randomly tears apart, and messages appear on the walls.
When a Covenant Church conference rolls into town and a prominent church leader turns up murdered, the past Emily is running from collides with the motel's restless spirits. Anonymous texts show disturbing photos of her older sister in a basement surrounded by women in cape dresses and denim jumpers. A small-town cop wants answers, and someone keeps reminding her: Don't think you're free.
As Emily asks questions about the ministries once run by her adoptive father, she uncovers chilling links between the cult, the conference, and the horror unfolding in Branch. With Kade fighting his own demons and the motel's ghosts growing more restless, Emily must decide whether to run again . . . or finally turn and face what's been following her since Caster.
A haunted motel. Small-town murder. Religious trauma. Slow-burn romance.
Waiting at the Well is a dark, atmospheric paranormal suspense novel perfect for fans of haunted-house horror, cult fiction, and emotionally complex romance."
"A stalled car. A missing man. A haunted bridge that won't let go. Every town has its ghost stories.
They meant to keep driving. One night, no sleep, the road unwinding through the foothills. But when Emily and Kade's Ford dies on an old, covered bridge, they stumble into a town full of ghost stories and whispered legends.
Locals call it Snakebite Bridge. Some say it's haunted. Others claim the devil himself lives there. Only last month, a man vanished after his car stalled in the same place, and no one can agree on what really happened to him.
In the daylight, the bridge looks harmless. At night, it feels wrong—longer than it should be, shadows stretching, and voices rising from the muddy water below. Like a place caught between life and death. As Emily accidentally begins piecing together the truth, while Kade revives their car, she quickly realizes some folktales are told to hide something worse.
Now she and Kade must decide. Do they keep running from the past or uncover what really happened on Snakebite Bridge—before it happens again.
The Bridge is a chilling psychological horror novella with a self-contained mystery, perfect for fans of ghost stories, cult thrillers, and slow-burn haunted romance."
"Rachel Bagwell's ghost has found justice.
Bishop Biddle is dead.
But for Emily Lyles, the night of his death is only the beginning. When the shock fades, she's left with a truth she can't unsee—she was raised in a cult, and its rot runs deeper in her family than she ever imagined.
With Wanda's fierce loyalty and Kade's quiet strength at her side, Emily begins to investigate the decades-old disappearance of Rachel Bagwell, a teenage girl from her church. What starts as a search through rumors and forgotten letters soon stirs something restless in the shadows . . . something watching her.
The closer she gets to the truth, the more the past presses in—through half-remembered nightmares, whispered warnings, and the ghost of a lingering presence too warm against her skin. The trail leads to a small blue house, a retired schoolteacher with a steel-trap memory, and a truth so dangerous it's been buried for thirty years.
Now Emily must decide how much she's willing to lose to uncover what happened to Rachel—
. . . and whether she can survive knowing the answer."
"She lived the life they gave her. Then she found the one they took.
A hidden room. A ghost in the mirror. A girl unraveling everything she was raised to forget.
Emily was raised to obey. To pray. To forget.
For as long as she can remember, her family has been her whole world. Her safe place. Her calling. But when late-night noises lead her to a hidden room inside her bedroom wall, Emily begins to see things she can't explain. A destroyed teddy bear. A scrap of pink fabric. A girl in the mirror who isn't her.
As buried memories rise from the cracks, so do questions—about her past, her identity, and what really happened to the girl who came before her. The more Emily remembers, the more dangerous it becomes to stay.
But she's not alone. A quiet man who doesn't follow the rules she was raised to obey. A friend who helps her find the courage to ask forbidden questions. Together, they become her lifeline through the dark.
Because the house isn't just haunted by a ghost. It's haunted by everything she was made to forget."
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