Sign-In
Cart
Embers Beneath the Ashes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 14 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the pristine, manicured world of Serenity Hills, every lawn is perfect, every family is flawless, and every secret is buried deep.
Eleanor Vance is the architect of this perfect world. As the powerful president of the community association, she has built her life on a foundation of order, rules, and absolute control. Her kingdom is flawless, until the day a beat-up station wagon and its two occupants-a mysterious, nomadic artist named Ava Reed and her sullen teenage daughter, Luna-arrive to rent her garage apartment.
Ava is everything Eleanor despises: a free spirit who represents chaos, unpredictability, and a past she is clearly running from. The two women are immediately locked in a battle of wills, a quiet war fought over community bylaws and unspoken judgments.
But when a newborn baby is abandoned at the local fire station, the town's carefully constructed facade begins to crack. The scandal threatens to expose the dark underbelly of Serenity Hills, and Eleanor finds herself at the center of a storm. As she is drawn deeper into the mystery, she discovers that her new tenant's secrets are intertwined with the town's own hypocrisy in ways she could never have imagined.
Forced into an impossible alliance, two women from opposite worlds must confront a devastating truth that could destroy them both-or set them free. Embers Beneath the Ashes is a gripping, suspenseful novel about the secrets we keep, the lies we tell ourselves, and the little fires of rebellion that can burn down a perfect life to reveal something more true.
Also from
Wade, Mark
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback