The Black Rose

Some stories are meant to be read. Others are meant to stay buried. Seven years after the fire that destroyed Voss & Vine, Lilith Voss is believed to be dead. But when powerful men begin turning up murdered, each body arranged with chilling precision and marked with a single black rose, the city is forced to face the corruption it tried to ignore. Detective Thorne sees a pattern. Rhea sees something worse: a thread leading back to buried files, old secrets, and a past that refuses to stay dead. Before the fire, Lilith had a bookstore, a quiet life, and Adrian Blackwell, a man whose attention felt as dangerous as it was irresistible. Now Blackwater is learning that some women do not simply survive ruin. They become the reckoning. Read more