Along the Salt Marsh (Driftwood Harbor Bookshop Mysteries Book 3)
By Veronica Mixon
Some secrets don’t disappear. They simply wait to be found.
Ellie Rose Callahan has finally begun to feel at home in Driftwood Harbor. Her grandfather’s bookstore is thriving, her relationship with Police Chief Landon Parker is becoming harder to call casual, and even Augustus Waverly—the opinionated spirit who refuses to leave the bookstore—has settled comfortably into her new life.
Then human remains are discovered on a stretch of marshland that has belonged to the Tucker family for generations. The bones have been there for thirty years. And they belong to a young woman everyone believed had simply packed her bags and left town.
A shaken Driftwood Harbor wants answers, and Henry Tucker turns to Ellie Rose for help. But this time there are no financial records to trace, no paper trail leading neatly toward the truth. To find out what happened thirty years ago, Ellie Rose will have to solve the mystery the old-fashioned way—by asking questions of the very people who knew the young woman best.
But they all remember her differently.
She was a daughter desperate to escape her father’s control, yet unwilling to let go of his approval. A restless young woman caught between two men. A loyal friend with a sharp edge. A sister willing to sell family land to claim her independence.
And on the night she disappeared, she was on the cusp of changing her world.
Thirty years later, old friendships, forgotten rivalries, and family secrets begin to surface—and someone in Driftwood Harbor may have spent decades hoping the marsh would keep its secrets buried.
Because finding the truth about what happened thirty years ago means discovering who had the most to lose if she stayed.
Some secrets don’t disappear. They simply wait to be found.
Ellie Rose Callahan has finally begun to feel at home in Driftwood Harbor. Her grandfather’s bookstore is thriving, her relationship with Police Chief Landon Parker is becoming harder to call casual, and even Augustus Waverly—the opinionated spirit who refuses to leave the bookstore—has settled comfortably into her new life.
Then human remains are discovered on a stretch of marshland that has belonged to the Tucker family for generations. The bones have been there for thirty years. And they belong to a young woman everyone believed had simply packed her bags and left town.
A shaken Driftwood Harbor wants answers, and Henry Tucker turns to Ellie Rose for help. But this time there are no financial records to trace, no paper trail leading neatly toward the truth. To find out what happened thirty years ago, Ellie Rose will have to solve the mystery the old-fashioned way—by asking questions of the very people who knew the young woman best.
But they all remember her differently.
She was a daughter desperate to escape her father’s control, yet unwilling to let go of his approval. A restless young woman caught between two men. A loyal friend with a sharp edge. A sister willing to sell family land to claim her independence.
And on the night she disappeared, she was on the cusp of changing her world.
Thirty years later, old friendships, forgotten rivalries, and family secrets begin to surface—and someone in Driftwood Harbor may have spent decades hoping the marsh would keep its secrets buried.
Because finding the truth about what happened thirty years ago means discovering who had the most to lose if she stayed.