The Hollow Engine

Clara Wren rebuilds engines the way other people rebuild lives, piece by piece, bolt by bolt, in the fog-drenched garage she's inherited on a coastal stretch of nowhere. But when a letter arrives from Marrow Lane, addressed to a name no one in her family will speak, her careful repair work is interrupted by something far more broken. Across town, Mira Chen knows more than she's saying. Sheriff Victor Kane knows exactly what he's hiding. The Pryce family has carried silence like a wound for decades, and the Marsh family has paid the price. Now Cyrus Wren's estranged daughter Elena Marsh stands at the center of a tangle no one meant to inherit, while Abel Marsh has spent a lifetime trying to outrun it. As Clara follows the trail of the letter, through abandoned lots, salt-bitten boats, and the wreckage of a tragedy the town agreed to forget, she learns that her family's engine has been running on something other than gasoline. Wren Calder, Lucan Pryce, and Dolores Pryce each guard their slice of the truth, and every one of them has reasons to keep it buried. The closer Clara gets to the heart of the machine, the louder it growls. The Hollow Engine is a brooding coastal mystery about the things we inherit, the ones we're raised to repair, and the ones that should never have been built. Turning the key will either set the wreckage right, or pull every family in town under.