A Slow Ruin

Library Journal NCIAP Book of the Year!

“Chilling from the first page. Gripping until the last.” – reader review

When Felicity marries into the wealthy Portman family, she quickly learns to navigate its tangled dynamics—an overbearing mother-in-law, a troubled brother-in-law, and his effortlessly glamorous wife Marin, who becomes an instant friend.

But everything changes the day Felicity’s daughter vanishes without a trace. And Marin was the last one to see her alive.

As the search turns desperate, cracks begin to show in Marin’s carefully constructed facade. Her past doesn’t add up. Her charm feels like a performance. And when a disturbing journal resurfaces months later, Felicity begins to uncover a chilling pattern—one that reaches back over a century, through generations of secrets the Portman family will do anything to protect.

The deeper Felicity digs, the more she begins to question everything: her marriage, her sanity, and the terrifying possibility that she trusted the wrong person from the very beginning.

The truth will come at a cost.
And not everyone will survive it.

A House of Ruin

Something wants to ruin every family that lives here…

A murder that stole 1982 national headlines:

“Renowned Family Slayed in Home”

A case that remained cold for forty long years.

The Eyler family was anything but average. The father a top literary agent and the mother a duchess, they thrived in their prestigious Oakmont mansion surrounded by luxury…and secrets. Secrets that would eventually cost them their lives.

On a cold autumn night, their legacy ended with a grisly massacre in one of the most horrific scenes ever investigated. Soon details splashed across every newspaper of how the family of five lay slaughtered in their library, cursing the mansion as it became branded the Execution Estate. With no witnesses and no motives, the killer remained free. The case grew colder. Speculations grew darker. Answers grew dimmer.

Until now.  

Former estate manager, Derl Newman, steps forward four decades later with a suspicion and a clue that could lead investigators to finally solve the puzzle of why a killer would murder a family yet leave the many priceless heirlooms behind. The gardener with a grudge? The bitter butler? The maid hiding her mischief? With insider knowledge of what happened that fateful night, Derl exposes everyone’s darkest secrets that brought this house to ruin.