The Bluff

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bo</strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>okLife Prize Semi Finalist 2024</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Traymore is a master of layered tension and she left me guessing until the last page. - Noelle W. Ihli #1 bestselling author of Gray After Dark</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Traymore masterfully ratchets up the tension little-by-little until the shocking explosive end.--Tracey Devlyn <em>USA Today </em>bestselling author</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What do you have to lose Kate? Ryan asked me as we stood on the bluff looking out on Lake Michigan.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Turns out almost everything. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When I first moved from Manhattan to this small town six years ago I worried about many things. I worried about finding a job. I worried that I'd be bored. I worried that my relationship with charming photographer Ryan Breslow was moving too fast. But I never worried about whether the ground beneath my feet would crumble-both literally and figuratively.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My marriage didn't go as I'd imagined. A year ago Ryan </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>met his untimely death</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> in a car accident that's still under investigation. Isolated and alone all I wanted was to sell my home and leave Crest Lake and its painful memories behind.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But with my home</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> inching ever closer to the edge</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> of the crumbling bluff the property has become unmarketable. All of us on the lakefront have lost chunks of property and</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> tempers are at a boiling point </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>about what to do next.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now on the evening of a contentious vote about how to fix this pressing issue my nemesis on the shoreline committee has been </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>murdered.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I know how it looks but it's not what it seems. But I have to get my plan passed and cash out.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because I do have secrets.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And they won't stay buried forever.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>With its high-stakes plot and complex characters the novel is a masterclass in building tension and intrigue. - NetGalley</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>This book was gripping and hard to put down. It didn't feel like everything else you see out there it felt very fresh. I really enjoyed this book! NetGalley</em></strong></p>