Book 1 of the Meet at Midwinter Series.
A dead friend. A buried secret. A killer who has been watching for years.
Forensic doctor Emma Bennett has spent eight years trying to forget the summer her best friend Lucy died. Officially, it was suicide. Emma has never fully believed it.
Then another woman is found drowned, wrapped with eerie precision, and the past refuses to stay buried.
As the investigation deepens, Emma is pulled back toward the school corridors, old photographs, and unfinished memories she has spent years avoiding. Anonymous letters, strange sightings, butterfly symbols, and a disturbing website called Midwinter all point to one chilling possibility: Lucy was never the first tragedy, only the beginning.
Detective Arthur Evans, the man Emma once loved and lost, is now leading the case. Forced together again, they must uncover what really happened to Lucy before the pattern claims another victim.
But the deeper Emma looks, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Someone has been watching the women from her old school for a very long time. Someone patient. Someone clever. Someone who knows exactly where guilt, fear, and memory are weakest.
And now that someone has noticed Emma looking back.
Dark, addictive, and impossible to put down, Meet at Midwinter is a psychological thriller of buried secrets, slow-burning tension, and a killer who hides in plain sight. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, and Lisa Jewell.
Cold case mystery with a shocking past
Dark psychological suspense
Slow-burn rekindled romance
Girls’ school secrets and buried trauma
Twist-driven crime fiction
Some secrets stay buried.
Some killers stay patient.
And some truths only surface when someone finally dares to look.
The Meet at Midwinter Series continues in Book 2.
