the Last Confession: Book One in Appointment Series

Nora Weller has spent years doubting her own memories.Her father, Grant Weller, is a powerful gubernatorial candidate with a carefully protected reputation. To the public, he is a devoted husband, loving father, and champion for vulnerable families. To Nora, he is the man who taught her that truth could destroy everything.When fragmented childhood memories begin resurfacing, Nora turns to renowned trauma therapist Dr. Elise Hart. Elise is calm, brilliant, and unlike anyone Nora has trusted before. She believes Nora immediately. She asks the questions no one else will ask. And for the first time, Nora begins to wonder whether the locked room, the blood, and her father's threats were real.Hours after Nora's first session, Grant Weller is found dead inside a locked luxury hotel suite.The evidence points directly to Nora.Her blood is found at the scene. Her therapy session is leaked to the press. Surveillance footage places her inside the hotel. Then her father's missing phone appears beneath her mattress.Detective Mara Sloan has seen what happens when victims are dismissed, but she has also seen trauma distort memory. As she investigates Grant's death, she uncovers a web of buried assaults, secret settlements, manipulated records, and suspicious deaths connected to Elise's former patients.Every suspect has a motive.Grant's wife protected his secrets for decades. His son is hiding what happened at the family lake house. His campaign manager was stealing millions. Elise's former partner altered patient files. A grieving maintenance worker believes dangerous men should be stopped permanently.And Elise may understand every one of them better than they understand themselves.As Nora fights to prove she is not a murderer, she must confront a terrifying possibility: the woman who believed her may also be the person who used her.Because Elise Hart never tells anyone to kill.She simply asks the right questions-and waits for someone to answer.The Last Confession is a fast-paced psychological thriller filled with unreliable memories, buried family secrets, chilling manipulation, and relentless twists. In a story where everyone is guilty of something, the most dangerous person may be the one who never touches the weapon.