A Cold Return: A Gothic Mystery of Old Money, Buried Secrets, and a Death in the Snow

A snowbound estate. A dead man from the past. A reunion no one was meant to survive.

Private investigator Evan Harding has spent years keeping Black Hollow Lodge behind him. The mountain house belongs to Corwin Ashby: old money, old wounds, and the most dangerous man Evan ever wanted to forget. Then an invitation arrives. Corwin claims it is time for honesty. Evan knows better than to trust him. But years ago, a man named Lysander Cole died at Black Hollow, and everyone who survived that winter agreed, in one way or another, to live with the official version. Now the old circle has been summoned back: Corwin, Isolde, Beckett, Hollis, Blaise, and Evan. The snow is closing in. The roads are failing. And before the first night is over, another body is found below the terrace. As power cuts, files vanish, rooms are searched, and old evidence resurfaces, Evan realizes the weekend is not only about what happened to Lysander. Someone has been keeping the past professionally buried. Someone has been paying to control the truth. And someone at Black Hollow is willing to kill before the dead are allowed to speak. Atmospheric, sharp, and emotionally charged, A Cold Return is a gothic mystery of wealth, silence, queer longing, and the cost of surviving what should have ended years ago.