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Rachel Hawkins, author of The Heiress

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of Ruby’s death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money --- and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Ten years later, his uncle’s death pulls Camden and his wife, Jules, back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable. And as Ashby House tightens its grip on Camden and Jules, questions about the infamous heiress come to light.

Week of November 4, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of November 4th include THE ATLAS MANEUVER by Steve Berry, a Cotton Malone adventure in which the retired Justice Department operative unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure known as Yamashita’s Gold; Ariel Lawhon's THE FROZEN RIVER, a gripping mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history; THE HEIRESS, a twisted Gothic suspense from Rachel Hawkins about an infamous heiress and the complicated inheritance she left behind; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, the 10th entry in Martin Cruz Smith's series starring Detective Arkady Renko, who risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared; and the paperback original DOUBLE BARREL BLUFF by Lou Berney, which marks the long-awaited return of former mob wheelman Shake Bouchon.