Tethered

<p><strong>TETHERED</strong><br>By Ajona Penhart</p><p><strong>Some memories are buried for a reason. But the truth never stays dead.</strong></p><p>When Cairo Mends receives a call from a Montana sheriff about his estranged mother's suicide he is thrust back into the haunted house of his childhood-and the depths of a trauma he thought he'd buried. His sister Liane an artist with a gift for destruction and secrets she can't explain joins him to settle their mother's estate. But the decaying house in Pine Ridge holds more than old ghosts.</p><p>As the siblings uncover journals recordings and the remnants of their mother's descent into paranoia a chilling truth begins to emerge: the long-forgotten disappearance of eleven-year-old Sophia Crane may not have been forgotten at all. And their mother wasn't crazy-she was covering for them.</p><p>Drawn into a spiraling investigation of their own past Cairo and Liane must confront the buried memories of a summer in 1997 that ended in blood betrayal and a secret grave in the woods. But as fragments of their childhood resurface so too do the echoes of guilt manipulation and the terrifying possibility that one of them may be a killer.</p><p><strong>TETHERED</strong> is a haunting psychological suspense novel that asks: what would you do if your past came home to bury you?</p>