About this book:

In "The Lighthouse Keeper's Secret," Ava Wheeler returns to her estranged ancestral home in Gull's Point after her lighthouse keeper father's suspicious death, officially ruled an accident. Haunted by vague childhood memories of a long-ago disappearance and a pervasive local silence, Ava finds herself embroiled in a decades-old mystery involving her family. She uncovers her father’s meticulously kept journals, filled with cryptic clues about a hidden truth connected to the lighthouse and a missing woman named Elara Thorne. As anonymous threats escalate and a local Sheriff issues chilling warnings, Ava realizes her father's death was no accident—he was silenced for getting too close to a dangerous secret.

Her investigation unearths a shocking truth: Elara Thorne's vanishing was a murder orchestrated by the respected Sheriff Samuel Brody, who had been systematically embezzling from the town and stealing a generational inheritance from a prominent local family. Ava teams up with Caleb Finch, a journalist and unwitting heir to the stolen legacy, to expose Brody. Their quest leads them to a forgotten witness and a series of brutal, silencing murders, forcing them into a desperate, high-stakes confrontation. As the secrets of the lighthouse—including a hidden chamber, ancient lineage, and the symbolic "Keeper's Mark"—are revealed, Ava discovers not only the depths of Brody's depravity, but also the agonizing role her own mother played in the decades-long cover-up, a choice made out of love and fear.