A Name to Outrun the Dead

Claire Sumner's grandmother left her a salt-bleached cottage on the Maine coast—and a tin of secrets that unravel three generations of lies. A tarnished nurse's pin, love letters in a dead woman's hand, and a death certificate that doesn't add up lead Claire from a crumbling island sanatorium to a buried truth about identity, murder, and the desperate bargain one woman made to survive. To save her inheritance and reclaim her real history, Claire must first learn who her grandmother truly was.