The Channel Cut

By Deon Benito

A drowned historian. A house that kept the lie.

Ada Byrne comes to Charlevoix for an ending: Douglas Brandt's sentencing, life for murder, closes the trial that hollowed out her spring. The keeper from Harbor Springs means to stay a quiet week - and takes the keys to the Anchorage instead.

Then historian Silas Rennick is found drowned in the channel. He had called Ada the day before he died, asking what only a keeper would know about the water, and he never made their coffee. In the archives of The Channelview House - the 1898 house on the hill, a museum for seven months - Rennick had found a misfiled box of old paper that rewrites Charlevoix's founding story.

Ada reads houses. Now she must read a town - before its chosen story buries the true one again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNY6ZQMN
• ISBN13: 9798953798020
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Benito Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"