After The Funeral
Gothic Thriller – Psychological Suspense – Domestic Mystery

The funeral was supposed to bury the past.Instead, it unearthed everything.After ten years in self-imposed exile, architectural conservator Harper Sloan returns to the fog-shrouded coastal town of Blackwood Cove for her mother’s funeral. Waiting for her is The Spire — the decaying Victorian estate where generations of the powerful Sloan family built their fortune on prestige, philanthropy, and carefully hidden lies.Her sister Olivia now rules the family empire with chilling perfection, determined to erase Harper from both the inheritance and the town’s memory. But when Harper discovers cryptic letters, hidden passageways, and evidence tied to a decades-old shipwreck scandal, she realizes the Sloan legacy was never built on honor.It was built on fraud, corruption, and murder.With the help of a mysterious investigator searching for answers of his own, Harper begins peeling back the layers of Blackwood Cove’s darkest secrets. But the deeper she digs into the house’s rotting foundations, the more dangerous Olivia becomes.Because some families don’t protect their secrets.They bury people with them.Perfect for fans of gothic suspense, psychological thrillers, wealthy family drama, and atmospheric mysteries filled with dark secrets, twisted inheritance battles, hidden identities, and haunting coastal settings, AFTER THE FUNERAL is a chilling domestic thriller about legacy, betrayal, and the terrifying cost of truth.