The Marbleville Mystery Solved

A boy who should be dead. A woman who should be in her grave. A villain who believes he holds all the cards.

Tom Ordway has survived the impossible—framed for a crime he didn't commit, beaten and thrown into a dark river to drown. By sheer instinct and desperate luck, he pulls himself aboard a vessel bound for Aspinwall, alive, but cut off from everyone he trusts, with no way to prove his innocence and no idea how deep the conspiracy against him runs.

Back in Marbleville, powerful forces are moving on his behalf—forces even Tom doesn't know exist. Eunice Ordway, the old woman the whole town buried, is not finished with the living. She is patient. She is ruthless. And she has been watching the man called Mark Belden for a very long time.

Belden thinks he has outmaneuvered everyone. He has turned men against each other, deceived physicians, intimidated witnesses, and stolen identities without a second thought. He is wrong about almost everything—and the truth is closing in.

As loyalties fracture inside Belden's criminal empire and old secrets claw their way out of the earth, Tom fights his way home across dangerous waters while the net tightens around the man who destroyed his life.

But Belden is not a man who goes quietly.

Can justice reach him before he destroys what little remains of the Ordway name—and everyone who carries it?