The Inheritance of Silence

Some families inherit houses. Some inherit secrets.
When Simon Copeland returns to his grandparents' ancestral home after the death of his grandfather, Arthur, he expects memories, possessions and the familiar remnants of a life now gone.
Instead, he finds an old wooden box hidden in the attic.
Arthur had found it decades earlier. He had investigated its history, feared what it contained-and left behind a warning Simon does not yet understand.
Not a vessel. A promise.
The deeper Simon searches, the further the mystery reaches into the past: to William Merrick, a man murdered in 1897; to Clara Whitcombe, the woman he loved; to an inheritance stolen through manipulation and betrayal; and to two families who allowed the truth to disappear beneath generations of respectability and silence.
But the past has not remained silent.
Something is bound to the box.
Something that remembers.
As Simon becomes increasingly connected to William's anger, uncovering the truth is no longer enough. The wronged dead do not simply want to be remembered. They want those who inherited the consequences of an old crime to answer for it.
And Simon must decide whether acknowledging an injustice means completing the vengeance it began.
Because he has inherited more than a family history.
He has inherited a choice.
The Inheritance of Silence is a contemporary Gothic supernatural mystery of buried family secrets, lost love, inherited guilt and the dangerous boundary between justice and revenge. A standalone novel within The Keepers' Legacy, it brings the consequences of centuries of choices into the modern world-where breaking the silence may finally allow the past to rest.