The Last Room at Bellweather

Some secrets aren't crimes. They're sacrifices.For thirty-one years, Room 17 has stayed locked - the last place Eleanor Bellweather was seen before she vanished in a pool of her own blood.True-crime investigator Mara Bennett doesn't believe the official story. Estate manager Julian Bellweather doesn't believe her. But when a blizzard traps them together in his family's dying mountain hotel, they have no choice but to open the door everyone else was too afraid to touch.What they find isn't a murder. It's a woman who staged her own death to save someone else - and a lie so complete it's protected an innocent life for three decades.As the snow keeps falling and the walls between them come down, Mara and Julian are forced to face the parts of themselves they've spent years guarding - her belief that every secret deserves exposure, his conviction that everyone he loves eventually leaves. The closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to each other, until neither one is sure anymore which discovery they're more afraid of losing.Now Mara holds the story that could make her career. Julian is falling for the one woman capable of destroying everything his family sacrificed to protect.Some truths deserve the light. Others deserve to stay buried - even from the two people falling in love over them.