Rider in the Mist

The Blackthorn estate is rotting at the edges — and something is riding through the mist.

When Aurelia Agee returns to Mississippi to sell her family’s abandoned plantation, she expects tangled paperwork and faded memories—not a ghost horse galloping through the fog, not whispers of a hanged Confederate highwayman, and certainly not a body in the woods.

Blackthorn is more than an overgrown ruin. It’s a place of secrets—some buried in the ground, others etched into bloodlines. And when Aurelia becomes the prime suspect in a shocking murder, she must unravel the truth behind the legends before she becomes one.

But in a town that remembers too much—and forgives too little—some ghosts never rest. And some legacies won’t stay buried.