A perfect weekend. The perfect company. A perfect cabin.The perfect place to bury a body…For Joel and Stella, it’s the trip they’ve been dreaming about. Fresh air, quiet time in the woods, and no work to distract them from each other. Being a new couple, they don’t waste any time with their first full weekend away together.But their perfect getaway turns into a nightmare when an accident occurs and they find a dead woman lying outside their cabin.Clearly they have to call the police, but what Joel reveals to Stella makes her understand there’s no way they can get the authorities involved.Stella has no other choice than to go along with Joel’s plans to hide the body, realizing now that she never really knew the man she’s sharing a bed with.But what if there’s more that Joel isn’t telling her? And what if he figures out that she doesn’t trust him anymore?Most of all, what if Joel finds out the secret that she’s been hiding from him?

"A dynamite tale of family fallout, mystery and intrigue, southern-style. Demands to be read in one all-night page-turning frenzy." —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times–bestselling authorIn her beloved hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina, Georgie Smallwood has carved out a life for herself, but it hasn't been easy. A teenage mother at sixteen, she built a thriving business restoring and selling antiques with the help of her steel magnolia mother.But little does Georgie know how deep the secrets run in her family—until her mother dies under circumstances that she finds suspicious, even if her sister and brother don't. Georgie can't help but think the worst of her controlling, unfaithful father, whose murky military past haunts him. The slow drops of doubt pool into a surging wave of fear that threatens to destroy the bond between Georgie and her siblings—and sink the very foundations they have built their lives upon.High Water is a gripping Southern thriller about blood ties, betrayal, and the legacy of silence—where the past rises like the tide and nothing stays buried forever."High Water is a lyrical, compelling novel about secrets, family, and even love." —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times–bestselling author"Hightower fills the story with plot twists that will appeal to thriller fans, but the novel, steeped in the feel of small-town South, also offers an introspective look at a woman's life, her personal relationships, and her sense of family loyalty." —Booklist"This intensely involving study of family dysfunction . . . is distinguished by its driving prose, lyricism and psychological nuance." —Publishers Weekly"The story hurtles along as rapidly as any of Hightower's police procedurals or thrillers but finds room for a world of family pain and southern warmth." —Kirkus Reviews

She thought she knew what happened to her sister.She was dead wrong. Grace Franklin was eleven when her older sister vanished.There were no searches.No posters.No pleas for help.Only one thing the family agreed on: Zoe chose to leave. We don’t talk about it.Grace learned to live with that.She even learned to believe it.But when Zoe’s remains are discovered at the bottom of a ravine just miles from their home, the story that held her family together begins to crack.Then a recording is found—Zoe’s voice, captured in the weeks before she died.The life Zoe describes is not the version the Franklins preserved.Not even close.It's something darker, closer, and far more difficult to explain.It doesn’t just contradict what Grace was told.It exposes the people she loves most.And once the tape starts playing, there’s no turning back.Someone lied. Someone knows more than they’re saying. And the truth about what happened to Zoe is darker than Grace ever imagined.Taut, heartbreaking, and deeply unsettling, She Left Us is a haunting psychological thriller about the lies that hold families together—and the truths that tear them apart.Perfect for fans of Lucinda Berry, Stacy Willingham and Mary Kubica.

AMAZON BEST SELLER One look in a criminal’s eyes and she witnesses their crimes. Grace McKenna is not your average police officer. She is haunted by the unsettling images she sees when she locks eyes with a criminal, her vision flooded with clues that force her to solve cases on her own. A sullen boy, a tormented woman, a breathless man, a thousand pieces of shattered green glass. On a missing persons case in a small Massachusetts town, Grace comes face to face with an unlikely criminal. Armed with only a handful of clues, she sets out to unravel a local family’s deathly secret.Sharing the streets with someone only she knows to be a killer is unsettling to say the least, but when her off-the-books investigation generates more questions than answers, the list of people she can trust grows dangerously short.It’s a race to solve the mystery before the trail goes cold and a killer walks free. Join the hunt for an elusive killer who’s primed to strike again.????? "Extremely intriguing from the preface forward!" - Reader Review