Inheritance of Darkness (Coming March 26, 2027)

Auden Lockwood paints things she doesn't remember seeing.

The critics call it genius — the strange, luminous canvases that made her famous overnight, compositions that feel less imagined than remembered. Auden only knows the work pours out of her from someplace she can't name, and that after the brutal attack that ended her triumphant tour, that place went dark.

So she runs. To Sawgrass Key — a speck of an island off the Georgia coast, a wreck of a house, and a quiet that finally lets her breathe. To Hale Conley, the ex-military carpenter who rebuilds her ruin of a home one board at a time and asks nothing of her but the truth — a man with a guarded past of his own, who wants her to want things again and won't push her an inch faster than she's ready. Slowly, with him, the work comes back. So does she.

Then a detective arrives from the mainland with a photograph and an impossible question: how did she render, stroke for stroke, a murder scene staged before she could speak?

Auden has been certain of two things her whole life: that her childhood was happy, and that her art belongs to her alone. Now, with the tide cutting her off from everyone who swore they'd keep her safe and the only man she's ever trusted keeping secrets of his own, she's about to learn that both were lies — and that the life she built to save herself may be the thing that gets her killed.