The Brick Kiln at Wren's Crossing

About this book:

The mud of Wren's Crossing remembers what the history books forgot. When preservation architect Eleanor Vance arrives to stabilize a crumbling 1840s brick kiln, she expects mortar analysis and structural reports—not a structure that breathes, bricks that burn cold, and a ledger fragment confessing *the whole may be consumed*. The kiln isn't a relic. It's a crime scene waiting for its witness.

As autumn frosts harden the ground, Eleanor uncovers a buried network of flues still hot after 170 years, a maker's mark stamped into the clay by a man named Thomas Wren, and the terrifying truth behind the fire that erased a village in a single November night. The official story calls it an industrial accident. The kiln's foundations whisper it was deliberate. And something in the dark cellars is still feeding the flames.

Atmospheric, technically precise, and steeped in New England gothic dread, *The Brick Kiln at Wren's Crossing* builds its mystery layer by layer—like the Flemish bond of the kiln itself—until the final revelation shatters everything you thought you knew about the past, and what it leaves behind.