Publisher's Synopsis
Some secrets are worth dying for. Others will get you killed.
Winchester, Tennessee, 1946-A quiet town with dark undercurrents.
By day, Martina Grace helps her uncle run the town café, keeping her head down and her past buried. By night, she writes horror novels under a male pseudonym-because in Winchester, no one believes a woman capable of conjuring such nightmares.
Her carefully controlled world shatters when FBI agents storm into town, investigating the disappearance of operatives sent to expose a drug trafficking ring. Then, a local teen turns up murdered-his body a message no one dares decipher.
When Martina is summoned to the sheriff's office, she's blindsided by questions about her missing brother. Suspicious, guarded, and refusing to trust the authorities, she resists-until a dangerously persistent FBI agent pushes her to talk. But every answer she gives only makes things worse, dragging her brother deeper into the crosshairs and putting a target on her own back.
The more she digs, the more the town's shadows close in. The bad guys are always one step ahead. Someone is watching. And in Winchester, the truth can get you killed.
With FBI heat rising and danger creeping closer, Martina must decide: How far will she go to protect her family? And what if the real villain is closer than she ever imagined?
Dark, tense, and dripping with Southern noir, Between Hope and Hell is a razor-sharp historical thriller about survival, betrayal, and justice in a town where nothing is what it seems.
