Upmarket Mystery & Suspense

All They'd
Ever Known

A Novel

Five hundred thousand acres of North Carolina wilderness. Somewhere inside it, a town that doesn't appear on any map, and a journalism student who was never supposed to find it.

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Setting Nantahala Mountains, NC
Status Seeking representation

For over a century, they've kept the outside world at a distance.

Elizabeth Caswell was never supposed to find them. When a rumor from a hiker leads her deep into the Nantahala mountains, the story she's chasing stops feeling like a story. It starts feeling like something worth protecting. Then tragedy strikes, and the outside world comes looking. Liz finds herself on the wrong side of the line she's spent her whole life defending. She can write the truth, or she can protect the people living it. She can't do both.