When the past refuses to stay silent, a blind investigator must listen with more than her ears.
Mara Westfield thought she'd faced her greatest challenge when retinitis pigmentosa stole her sight. She was wrong. When concert pianist Vivienne Ashford calls about a haunted Victorian mansion, Mara discovers a mystery that's been waiting 137 years for someone who could truly hear it.
Every night at 11 PM, an invisible pianist plays the same haunting melody in the mansion's music room. No mechanical explanation. No visible presence. Just music?and a message coded into the notes themselves.
Clara Whitmore was a blind piano teacher murdered in 1889. Dismissed in life because of her disability, she left her testimony the only way she could: in a musical code only another blind woman could understand. Through temperature patterns, emotional echoes, and sensory investigation techniques, Mara pieces together a 137-year-old murder that powerful forces want to keep buried.
But solving the case means confronting her greatest fear: What if the legal system dismisses her evidence because she's blind?
With her ghost partner Nate at her side, Mara must prove that different perception isn't inferior?it's exactly what this case needs. From coded melodies to Braille testimonies hidden where sighted people would never look, Clara left clues for someone like Mara. Someone who understands that blindness doesn't mean inability.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Cozy paranormal mysteries with heart
- Disability representation that empowers
- Victorian historical mysteries
- Found family and mature romance
- Small-town New England settings
- Ghosts with purpose, not just scares
- Female investigators over 35
- Mysteries solved through unique perspectives
Different doesn't mean diminished. Sometimes it means seeing the truth everyone else missed.
Book 3 in the Thornfield Hollow Mysteries. Can be read as standalone but best enjoyed in series order.
