The Genealogist's Deadly Discovery
A Romantic Suspense Novel

About this book:

When genetic genealogist Nora Bailey uploads a century-old cold case to a public database, she expects a routine ancestry trace—not a sixty-centimorgan match linking a 1908 Boston murder victim to a 1990s Pacific Northwest serial killer. The shared Y-chromosome points to one source: the Blackwoods, a dynasty of old-money power brokers who have spent generations burying secrets alongside their dead. But the moment Nora connects the historical remains to a living descendant currently breathing in the database, her lab is remotely breached, her building surrounded, and her life becomes the next variable in an equation someone will kill to keep unsolved.

On the run through rain-slicked Boston streets with an encrypted drive and a target on her back, Nora's only lifeline is the one man who should be hunting her: FBI Special Agent Eli Cross, the skeptic who once dismissed her work as "recreational science." Forced into an uneasy alliance, they trace a bloodline paved with sealed records, expunged police files, and a pattern of violence that resurfaces every few decades—always male, always Blackwood, always protected. As the trail leads to the family's forbidding Maine estate, the chemistry between Nora and Eli ignites, but trust is a liability when the enemy knows your DNA better than you do.

Now, with a killer watching the family tree for fresh branches to prune, Nora must decode a century of genetic treachery before the Blackwoods' most ruthless heir decides she's the final loose end. *The Genealogist's Deadly Discovery* is a pulse-pounding romantic suspense where science meets secrets, the past refuses to stay buried, and the most dangerous inheritance of all is the truth.