The Blackwood Inheritance

A letter slid beneath a door summons Elena Blackwood back to the crumbling estate she swore never to return to. The inheritance is vast. The family is fractured. And the patriarch, Henry Blackwood, is already dead. When Elena arrives at Blackwood Hall, she finds a household of suspects: the brittle housekeeper Mrs. Croft, the sharp-tongued Mathilda Blackwood, the controlling Arthur Voss, and the enigmatic Julian Thorne, whose interest in Elena seems far too personal. Sheriff Marcus Dawson believes the death was no accident, and as the estate's secrets surface, so do bodies. Every locked room conceals another lie, every relative guards another grudge, and the terms of Henry Blackwood's will force Elena to stay, if she wants to claim what is hers. As alliances shift and betrayals mount, Elena must uncover which of the Blackwoods is willing to kill for the inheritance, and whether the curse the family whispered about for generations was never superstition at all.