Brown Sugar & Ink

The ground in Hallow Ridge, Tennessee doesn't give up its dead. Not willingly.

When forensic anthropologist Dr. Opal Kincaid is called to examine what should have been historic remains in an unmarked mountain cemetery, she finds something far worse — a fifteen-year-old murder victim the whole town swore just ran away. Now Opal is asking questions nobody wants answered, in a place where silence isn't just a habit. It's a covenant.

Deputy Cal Collins was supposed to keep an eye on the outsider. He wasn't supposed to want her. And he damn sure wasn't supposed to let her get close enough to discover what runs in his blood — a gift that lets him read secrets through skin. Every touch is a confession. Every lie has a taste.

But Opal doesn't flinch. Not from the dead, not from the truth, and not from him.

The deeper they dig, the more dangerous Hallow Ridge becomes — because someone killed to keep this secret buried, and the mountain that watches over this town has been waiting a very long time to collect what it's owed.

The Quiet Acre is a supernatural mystery thriller romance with explicit sexual content, featuring an interracial romance (BWWM) between a Black woman forensic anthropologist and a white Appalachian deputy with a gift he never wanted. Book 1 of the Hallow Ridge Series.