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The Keeper's Reckoning: What The Record Holds
Paperback
Series: The Last Guest House Trilogy, Book 3
Publisher: Carter Bryson
Published: Apr 9 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The truth was never lost. It was only buried.
On storm-beaten Harrow Isle, Mara Vale thought the worst was behind her. The dead had been named. The lies had begun to crack. And the old guest house she fought to reclaim had finally started to feel like home.
Then a woman arrives on the October ferry carrying secrets she has not yet decided to reveal.
Within hours, strange freight appears at the harbor, a hidden claim rises against the island's future, and long-suppressed records begin surfacing from the dark edges of Harrow Isle's history. What follows is more than another scandal. It is a reckoning decades in the making.
As Mara digs deeper, she uncovers evidence that could finally expose the full architecture of fraud, inheritance, and silence that shaped the island for generations. But the truth is larger than she imagined, and far more dangerous. Because someone has been keeping score. Someone has been watching the record. And someone will do whatever it takes to make sure the final version is never brought to light.
With the fate of the guest house, the island, and a family's rightful legacy hanging in the balance, Mara must untangle a web of buried documents, contested bloodlines, old betrayals, and new threats before the past claims another victim.
But on Harrow Isle, every answer comes with a cost.
And some truths were hidden for a reason.
The Keeper's Reckoning is the gripping final novel in The Last Guest House Trilogy-a haunting coastal mystery filled with buried secrets, storm-soaked atmosphere, inheritance battles, murder, and the long-awaited unmasking of everything the island tried to hide.
Perfect for readers who love:
- coastal gothic suspense
- old houses and buried family secrets
- inheritance mysteries
- atmospheric island settings
- slow-burn tension and elegant menace
- layered, intelligent mystery thrillers with emotional payoff
The record has waited long enough.
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