Quiet Cargo: Some secrets are too dark to survive
She has sat beside three hundred and twelve people as they died. She was never ready for her own heart to break.
When her mother dies in the spring, Savannah hospice social worker Nora Whitlock does what she has always done. She stays calm, signs the forms and makes the calls. The only call she doesn't know how to make is the one to a funeral home.
That is how she meets Julian Marsh. He runs his late father's funeral parlor on Abercorn Street. He is quiet and bookish, plays the cello badly, and is the first person in a year to ask about her mother instead of her mother's paperwork. Kindness in a room full of lilies turns into long walks by the river, and then into a love Nora never expected to feel.
But Julian is keeping secrets.
His phone rings at two in the morning. The hearse leaves the garage with its headlights off. A gas receipt from Texas turns up where it has no business being. An old woman's rosary vanishes from a sealed casket somewhere between Georgia and the desert. And a genial stranger from Houston knows far too much about Nora's work, her car and her mother's grave.
As the truth grows darker, Nora must decide what love is worth, what a name is worth, and whether some secrets can ever stay buried.
Quiet Cargo is a Southern novel of love, grief and moral reckoning. It's for readers who like a slow-burn romance with real danger and a heroine who doesn't look away.
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