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The House on Fifth Street: A Bailey Rae Mystery
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Thirty Quills Press LLC
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
When Bailey Rae Vaughn inherits a weathered Victorian on Fifth Street in Galveston, she expects dust, memories, and maybe a few family secrets.
What she finds instead is a house that feels...watchful. Inside, her great-aunt Midori's belongings remain untouched, stacks of papers, hand-stitched quilts, and fragments of a past no one ever fully explained. Hidden among them are clues to a buried history tied to a long-forgotten community whose story was never meant to survive.
Then a squatter is found dead on her porch.
As developers close in on Fifth Street and pressure mounts to sell, Bailey realizes this is no ordinary inheritance. The deeper she digs, the more she uncovers: missing records, hidden messages, family secrets, and a legacy that stretches back generations. With her sharp-witted best friend Lorna at her side, a keen-eyed Maine Coon named Captain Morgan nearby, and a neighborhood full of whispers and half-remembered truths, Bailey follows a trail of clues that someone is determined to keep buried.
Because this is not just about a house.
It is about history. It is about legacy.
And someone is willing to kill to erase both.
A Southern Cozy Gothic Mystery filled with hidden histories, family secrets, coastal Southern charm, and a clever feline companion.
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