Lavender for the Faithless (A Last Words Mystery Book 2)

The dead tell Rowan Calloway the truth. The living make her work for it. Seven months after returning to Harrow Bend, Rowan has stopped planning her escape. Her grandmother’s herb shop is hers now. So is the strange Calloway gift that lets her hear the last words of the dead. Then a developer begins buying up Old Town, including the block that holds Calloway Herbs and Remedies. At the same time, a box of nineteenth-century letters exposes a much older theft buried beneath the town’s carefully preserved history. Before historian Eleanor Hartwell can reveal everything she has discovered, Rowan finds her dying in the archive beneath a fallen shelf. Eleanor leaves her three fragments: Ashford. Not who. The letters. The name points straight at Thomas Ashford, the charming heritage consultant Rowan has begun to trust. But the deeper Rowan digs, the less the clue behaves like an accusation. Someone has spent generations protecting Harrow Bend’s version of its past. Someone has already killed to keep that version intact. And Rowan’s gift is changing. As old betrayals surface, her relationship with Deputy Cal Mercer is tested, an uncannily observant calico keeps watch, and Rowan must decide which truths can be trusted before another secret is buried with the dead. Lavender for the Faithless is the second A Last Words Mystery , continuing Rowan Calloway’s story after Rosemary for the Dead. Read more