ancestral secrets book ideas

A Mourning Dress for the Sea

In 1891, a seamstress is commissioned to make a mourning dress for the sea. Each fitting returns a drowned family's missing possession, including something her grandmother insisted she had burned.

The Widow Who Hired Her Own Ghost

An adult widow hires a performer to haunt her ancestral estate and drive away a predatory buyer. When the false haunting begins answering questions neither conspirator asked, preserving her home requires facing what she actually wants to leave.