The Stranger

Eleanor Finch has never questioned her mother's silence—until a face she's never seen stares back at her from a forgotten photograph. The resemblance is unmistakable. The implications are devastating. Now an archivist trained in preserving the past must dismantle the one her own family constructed, tracing a phantom relative through coastal ruins and falsified documents. Every answer fractures a bond she thought unbreakable, and someone is watching to ensure the truth stays buried.