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Tell Her: The First Mara Ellery Novel
Paperback
Series: A Mara Ellery Novel, Book 1
Publisher Price: $18.95
Publisher: Indy
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some women leave without saying goodbye.
Some women leave because no one will miss them.
Deep in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina, Mara Ellery has built something most people only dream about: a quiet life. Eight years ago she walked away from a world of danger and money and men who thought they owned her. Now she grows hemp on forty acres in Cullowhee, runs a lodge for people who need refuge, and asks no questions of the strangers who come to her door.
She knows how to disappear. She has never forgotten how.
Then Anna arrives. Midnight. Terrified. Bruised in the way women are bruised when someone has decided they are property. She pays in cash, asks which rooms face away from the road, and wants to know the exits. By morning, she is gone - leaving behind a smashed phone, a too-neatly made bed, and footprints that lead into the mountains.
The sheriff calls it a runaway. Mara knows better. She has been where Anna is. She has made that choice between staying and surviving.
What Mara discovers as she begins to look is worse than she imagined. Anna is not the first. In the past eighteen months, five women have vanished from these mountains - all of them blonde, all of them running, all of them connected to the white trucks of a respected local construction company. A young woman is found strangled in the Tuckasegee River. A corrupt deputy is protecting someone powerful. And the community Mara has spent eight years earning the trust of is fracturing along the oldest fault line there is: who belongs here, and who doesn't.
To find Anna, Mara will have to become the woman she buried. The one who knew how dangerous men think. The one who understood that in certain worlds, a woman who knows too much simply disappears.
Some secrets are buried in the mountains. Some are buried in us.
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