About this book:

Inherit a crumbling estate and a legacy shrouded in mystery with *Midnight Heirloom*. Mara Sutton, a struggling city artist, is inexplicably named the sole heir to her reclusive great-aunt Iris's coastal manor. Arriving in the fog-bound town of Greymouth, Mara quickly discovers that her inheritance comes with a heavy burden: a family history steeped in decades of silence, resentment from powerful local families, and a pervasive sense that the manor itself holds dark secrets. As she explores the vast, imposing house, Mara unearths unsettling clues – a locked diary, cryptic letters from a vanished uncle, and a missing family portrait – hinting at a truth far more dangerous than a simple family feud.

Pulled into a web of hidden rooms, coded messages, and phantom watchers, Mara realizes her great-aunt Iris deliberately orchestrated this inheritance as a final act of defiance. With the help of a local historian, Mara follows a trail of breadcrumbs that leads to a horrifying discovery: a human trafficking operation, built by the Sutton and Thorne families on a foundation of greed and betrayal, with her own great-aunt Lily as a central, tragic figure. Armed with a chilling register of stolen lives and facing threats from those desperate to keep the past buried, Mara must decide if she is willing to risk everything to expose the truth and transform a poisoned inheritance into a force for justice.