Some secrets refuse to stay buried.
Imogen Harper thought she knew who she was. An architect with a successful London practice. An orphan raised by her grandmother in a small Cornish village. A woman with an ordinary past.
Then her grandmother died, and everything changed.
Behind a false wall in her inherited Victorian house, Imogen discovers a hidden room filled with forty years of evidence about Philippa Ashworth-a young woman who vanished without a trace in 1982.
But it’s the photograph that shatters everything. A woman with her face. Her eyes. Her features.
The missing woman was her mother. And her entire life has been a lie.
What Imogen uncovers is a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of power. A murder so thoroughly concealed that the killer became mayor while the victim was erased from history.
As she digs deeper, threatening notes arrive. Witnesses die. And Imogen realizes the people who destroyed her mother are still watching. Still killing. Still desperate to bury the truth.
She can walk away and stay safe.
Or finish what her mother started-no matter the cost.
Perfect for fans of psychological thrillers, cold case mysteries, and stories of daughters seeking justice for mothers they never knew.