Where The Ashes Fall: 1

The Elena Ward Series - Book OneForensic investigator Elena Ward reads evidence better than anyone in Northern England. She reads people just as well. The one person she's never learned to see clearly is herself.Then a body turns up in a burned-out warehouse on the edge of Ashford placed with careful, deliberate hands and marked with a small symbol Elena has seen only once before: in the file of the sister who vanished twelve years ago. A man is watching from beyond the police tape. He doesn't run when she notices him. His name is Lucas Hale, and he knows far more about that symbol than an innocent man should.As more bodies appear and the trail leads to a quiet, carefully hidden network, the case stops being just a case. It runs straight through Elena's own past and through the people she has spent her whole life keeping at a distance.Dark, atmospheric, and slow-burning, Where the Ashes Fall is the first Elena Ward novel: a gritty Northern crime thriller and a dangerous, hard-won romance, where the truth Elena is chasing turns out to be the one closest to home.