The Seventh Confession

Four months of silence ends when Clara Moss steps through the door of her father's house on Larch Street, where tea has been steeping long past saving. Judge Aldric Moss has vanished, leaving behind a stack of unanswered letters, a name circled in red ink, and a single page marked The Seventh Confession. Clara once traded the courtroom for the pressroom, believing the truth was a cleaner weapon than any gavel, but her father begged her to bury a story four months ago, and she hasn't spoken to him since. Now the town she left behind is unraveling. Mayor Thomas Vane is fighting for his political life, his son Samuel stands accused of a death no one can explain, and seven confessions have surfaced across the county, each one stripping the mask from a household that thought its secrets were safe. Clara's estranged ally Rourke Calloway warns her to stay out, but Dr. Fenwick Ainsley has evidence that points directly to her, and a silent benefactor is paying her rent. The seventh confession names Clara Moss. To clear her name, she must finish what her father started, trust a stranger named Margot Ellison with the only piece of evidence she has, and choose between the family she fled and the story that could destroy it. The truth will not wait for the kettle to cool.