Book Two of THE ARCHITECURE OF SECRETS SERIES
When structural investigator Adrian Vale arrives at Blackwater Key, he expects an eccentric coastal estate, a difficult survey, and a storm that may delay his return to the mainland. What he finds is a house that has been engineered to conceal itself.
Built into the granite cliffs and shadowed by generations of carefully kept secrets, Blackwater Key Estate does not give up its history easily. Its floor plans don’t match its walls. Its drainage runs somewhere no one will name. Rooms have been erased from the record, windows sealed from the outside, and old symbols wait behind wallpaper for someone precise enough to notice them.
As the storm cuts the island off from the mainland, Adrian and his team uncover evidence that the house has been hiding more than architectural anomalies. Someone else has searched Blackwater Key before. Someone may still be searching. And whatever lies beneath the estate is valuable enough to kill for — or to keep buried forever.
Atmospheric, intelligent, and slow-burning, The House at Blackwater Key is a gothic mystery about old buildings, older secrets, and the dangerous things that happen when a house finally decides to answer.
"Richly detailed with a captivating heroine. The cipher and antique restoration elements brought a whole new layer of intrigue to the genre."