The Black Bear Inn

Adeline Sinclair returns to her family’s remote cabin on Lake Superior, a place she’d sworn off for good, only to become a suspect in her friend’s murder.

When Adeline accepts a job at the Black Bear Inn, her charming manager, Val Grant, welcomes her into a close-knit friend group—something Adeline has been longing for. For the first time since leaving the Twin Cities, Adeline believes she can start over. But her new beginning unravels when a threatening package arrives at the Inn with a chilling message: STAY OUT OF IT. Val is cagey when pressed for answers, and days later, her body washes ashore.

With evidence pointing to Adeline, the town turns on her, leaving her isolated once again. Desperate to clear her name, she begins her own investigation, but her only lead is the guest who vanished the night Val died. As Adeline digs deeper, she realizes Val was silenced before she could expose the truth.

And someone is willing to kill to keep it buried.