The Guilty Trial

THE GUILTY TRIAL Some Secrets Demand a Verdict Everyone in Ashwood Hollow thinks they know who killed Daniel Reyes. They're wrong. But so is she. Maren Ellis has spent eight years burying the truth about her and Daniel, the golden boy who came home rich, ambitious, and determined to pave over the orchard she loves. So when he turns up dead the same night she was standing in his driveway, she does the only thing that makes sense to a woman with everything to lose: she lies to the sheriff. All night, she says. She was home all night. It's the first lie. It won't be the last. As the district attorney builds a case with Maren's name at the center of it, Daniel's brother Nate is fighting a guilt of his own, because he argued with Daniel hours before he died, and at least one thing he said sounded a lot like a threat. Thrown together by grief, suspicion, and a countdown to a grand jury neither of them can survive, Maren and Nate start pulling apart a decade of buried secrets, corrupt land deals, and a small town's talent for looking away. What they find isn't just a killer. It's a truth that could clear them both, or bury them for good. Twenty one days. One town full of people ready to believe the worst. And two people who are starting to realize the only way out is together. Fans of small town secrets, slow burn romance under pressure, and courtroom countdowns will not be able to put this one down.