Buried in the Rearview

Mara Bennett came home to bury her father.She planned to stay just long enough to sell his struggling Tennessee garage and leave Mercy Ridge behind for good.Then she opened Bay Three.Beneath twenty-five years of dust sits a black-cherry 1970 Chevelle SS with no title, no customer file, and no explanation for why her father kept it hidden.Eli Mercer recognizes the car immediately.He just doesn't tell Mara.Twenty-five years earlier, nineteen-year-old Rachel Tate disappeared after Mercy Ridge's Founders Day celebration. Police said she ran away. Her family never believed them.And Eli saw this Chevelle the night she vanished.As Mara and Eli begin restoring the forgotten muscle car, they uncover evidence someone went to extraordinary lengths to hide-and rekindle feelings neither of them expected to survive their years apart.But somebody else knows what's inside that garage.Somebody who has spent twenty-five years making sure Mercy Ridge keeps its secrets.And they'll burn down more than an old garage to keep this one buried.Some things belong in the past. Some refuse to stay there.Buried in the Rearview is Book One of the Mercy Ridge Secrets series, a small-town romantic suspense series filled with cold cases, dangerous secrets, second chances, and the people willing to risk everything for the truth.