In the humid, storm-battered corner of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, some secrets refuse to stay buried—especially when another hurricane threatens to unearth them. Rachel Hawkins returns to the Southern Gothic territory she’s mastered with The Storm by Rachel Hawkins, a propulsive psychological thriller that weaves together multiple timelines, unreliable narrators, and the devastating power of nature to expose the lies we tell ourselves about the past. A Tale of Cursed Ground and Buried Truths Geneva Corliss is barely keeping her family’s historic Rosalie Inn afloat when true crime writer August Fletcher arrives with an intriguing proposition: he wants to research the 1984 death of Landon Fitzroy, the governor’s son who died during Hurricane Marie in circumstances that were never fully explained. More shocking still, Fletcher brings with him Gloria “Lo” Bailey—the woman accused of Fitzroy’s murder over forty years ago, now ready to tell her story. As tropical storm warnings escalate into hurricane predictions, Geneva finds herself trapped in a dangerous echo of the past, where old secrets threaten to destroy everything she’s worked to preserve. …