The Mara Ellison Series

The gripping first book in the Mara Ellison Series.

A body buried beneath the cliffs.

A disappearance no one properly investigated.

And a detective about to uncover secrets someone believed were lost to the sea.

Six years ago, Laura Whitmore vanished.

She had checked into a private rehabilitation facility on the Kent coast.

Days later the clinic claimed she walked away.

No witnesses.

No investigation.

No one looking for answers.

Until the sea gives her back.

After a violent winter storm exposes a shallow grave beneath the cliffs outside Broadstairs, Detective Inspector Mara Ellison is called to the scene.

The remains belong to Laura Whitmore.

Reopening the case leads Mara and her partner DS Finn Rourke into the secretive world of the rehabilitation facility where Laura was last seen alive—a place where records have disappeared, staff stories don’t match, and former residents speak of control, silence, and fear.

Someone inside the building knows what happened the night Laura died.

But as Mara pushes closer to the truth, the investigation begins to echo something from her own past—a name connected to the mysterious death of her husband three years earlier.