Buried Bones by Melinda Leigh

Buried Bones by Melinda Leigh

A college student's murder shines light on community secrets left in the dark in the seventh Widow's Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.

All communities have their secrets...but on Widow's Island, there's a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer.

Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She'd come to Widow's Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month--and not a single islander has reported her missing.

The investigation reveals a dangerous predator hiding in the Widow's Island community. With her fianc , park ranger Logan Wilde, by her side, Tessa must find Aurora's murderer before they strike again.

Melinda Leigh gave up her banking profession to raise her children and has never looked back. She began writing as a hobby and quickly developed an addiction to creating characters and stories. She has won numerous honors for her paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels since then. Her debut novel, She Can Run, was nominated for an International Thriller Award for Outstanding First Novel and sold over 100,000 copies in six months, making it the number one bestseller in both Kindle Romantic Suspense and Mystery/Thriller. Melinda is an active martial artist who possesses a second-degree black belt in Kenpo karate and teaches women's self-defense when she isn't writing. She shares a cluttered home with her husband, two teenagers, two rescue cats, and a couple of dogs.