What Was Kept (Inconveniently Haunted)

By Harlo Malone

Thirty-two years ago, Margaret Sutherland was murdered for what she knew. Her daughter never got the chance to ask her why.

When Dani Wallace inherits a house she never knew existed, with thirty days to claim it before the county takes it back, she expects paperwork, not a ghost. But 14 Corbie Alley has been keeping secrets since the night her birth mother died, and the man who died right alongside her isn't ready to stop protecting the daughter he only got to hold for two weeks.

With her wife Bex and the rest of her found family at her side, Dani starts pulling at the threads Margaret left behind: a warded research file, a killer with old money and older secrets, and a countdown that isn't just about the house anymore. Someone doesn't want the truth about Margaret's murder to surface. And he's willing to make sure Dani doesn't live long enough to find it.

Dead Reckoning is the emotional conclusion to the Inconveniently Haunted trilogy: the mother she never got to know, the family that chose her anyway, and a truth worth digging up no matter how long it's been buried.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDV1L8Q9
• ISBN13: 9798192135556
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"