Play Dead: A Gothic Romance

By Rod Vick

Two hours ago, twenty-nine-year-old Eva Chouette was just a sopping bicyclist hoping the country bed-and-breakfast known as Ironwood House could offer her refuge from a storm.
Now she's a murderer.
At least that's what the house's other guests are telling the county sheriff after one of the visitors is found with a garden tool jammed through his heart. Her only ally is the young mystery author, Chet Drout, who has come to Ironwood House seeking inspiration from the gothic atmosphere. In the process of unraveling the truth, they discover each of the guests has dark secrets.
But Eva has always been unlucky in love, and as she grows closer to Chet and begins to imagine a future for the two of them, doubts emerge. Is his kindness genuine? Or does Chet have sinister secrets of his own?
With growing evidence revealing everything she first assumed about the murder is wrong, Eva wonders whether she can trust her own judgment. Or whether some hidden wickedness is manipulating the lives of all the guests at Ironwood House.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWVHND2W
• ISBN13: 9798255816972
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"