No Exit from Blackwood Ranch

About this book:

When a historic blizzard seals the Blackwoods inside their sprawling Wyoming fortress, the storm outside becomes the least of their worries. Patriarch Silas has summoned his scattered heirs to witness a revised will that signs away the ranch to a bank trust—but before the ink can dry, the power fails, the doors blow open, and a man with a crowbar and a seventy-year-old grudge walks out of the cellar claiming the land was never Silas’s to give. As the temperature plummets and the snow buries the drive, three estranged cousins and a dying tyrant are trapped with a stranger who knows every hidden passage, every forged signature, and exactly where the bodies are buried.

Callum stayed to work the land Margaret fled to litigate, and Julian just wants to survive the night. But the documents Margaret stole from Silas’s desk reveal a conspiracy rooted in the autumn of 1923: a stolen oil field, four missing homesteaders, and a fortune built on lead-sealed secrets. Now Jesse Holt—heir to the family the Blackwoods destroyed—has come to collect, and he’s not the only one with a key to the locked rooms. With the phone lines dead and the generator running on borrowed time, the heirs have forty-eight hours to untangle a century of lies before the thaw exposes what the storm has kept frozen.

Atmospheric, claustrophobic, and ruthlessly plotted, *No Exit from Blackwood Ranch* is a Gothic thriller where the weather is a character, the house holds more traps than a mausoleum, and every inheritance comes with a blood price. Perfect for fans of Tana French’s *The Searcher* and Stephen Graham Jones’s *The Only Good Indians*, this is a locked-room mystery where the room is nine thousand acres, the lock is a blizzard, and the key is buried in the past.