J.L. Hyde

How well do you really know your neighbors? Ruby Windsor is putting the pieces of her life back together after a horrible decision in her teenage years results in a lengthy prison sentence. Newly free and without any family to support her, Ruby does her best to hold down a job and keep her head above water. Just when it seems that hope for a normal life is dwindling, she is contacted by her estranged grandmother, Rosie. Rosie lives on Magnolia Court , a cul-de-sac in the most exclusive gated community in Door County, Wisconsin. She's in an assisted living facility after an incident at home and needs someone to watch over her house and handle her affairs while she's gone. Estranged or not, Ruby is the only family she has left. Shortly after arriving at her grandmother's beautiful home, she realizes that the wealthy have just as many secrets, they just bury them a little deeper. How long will it take for Ruby to discover what's being hidden by the residents of Magnolia Court, and will she live to tell anyone what she's found? This unputdownable thriller from the author of Delta County will have you questioning everything.

For over four decades, Camp Shady Oaks was the premiere youth camp for a summer filled with nature, survival skills, and fun in the remote woods of the Hiawatha National Forest. In 1999, it was forced to close abruptly when tragedy struck. What is now the abandoned location of one of Michigan’s most notorious unsolved mysteries gains national attention when former camper Quinn Harstead pens a best-selling account of the events that occurred. The camp remains empty and frozen in time for twenty-three years before Quinn receives an invitation for its grand reopening. Will she return to the place that continues to haunt her memories in search of answers, or will the secrets of Shady Oaks stay buried forever?

WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T GO HOME? The greatest days of Heather Matthews’ life have taken place in Delta County. Unfortunately, so have the worst. Ten years after an unspeakable tragedy took the lives of the two people she loved the most, Heather returns to her hometown for a class reunion with her high school sweetheart, who is now her husband. Just when she recalls all the reasons to love the idyllic lakeside town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, her life is once again turned upside down. Heather must push her grief aside and investigate the events that occurred the night of the reunion. The process will also have her questioning everything she thought she knew about the tragedy ten years prior. In a town this small, betrayal always hits a little too close to home.

Time seems to unearth even the darkest of secrets . . . Mandy Cramer has lived her entire life in a small lakeside town that is divided in two distinct groups: the working class, who live downtown, and the wealthy members of the ultra-exclusive Hawthorne Bluff Club. Details of the clubs one-hundred year history are scant, as the members are notoriously tight-lipped and the gates remain closed to outsiders. When Mandy accepts a position as a nanny for the club president's children, she discovers more secrets than she ever bargained for. Murder, lies, and a small town full of suspects will keep you turning the pages of this unputownable mystery.