Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Thirty years ago, Marianne Vale vanished just days before her wedding.Her family was told she had left voluntarily. A court later declared her dead. The case was closed, the years passed, and Marianne became another woman reduced to a few lines in an old file.Then Detective Mara Vale discovers something impossible.There are two death records for her aunt.One says Marianne died in 1993.The other says she died in 2005.Both lead back to Bellweather House-a beautiful old estate on the South Carolina coast, a family determined to protect its history, and a grave that appears to belong to the same woman twice.As Mara begins pulling at the threads, she finds altered records, buried identities, an unfinished wedding portrait, and evidence that Marianne’s disappearance may have been only the beginning.The deeper the investigation goes, the harder it becomes to separate grief from manipulation, memory from evidence, and the dead from the women who were forced to disappear.Because some families bury secrets.Bellweather buried a woman twice.The Bride in the Second Grave is a dark psychological thriller about family secrets, erased identities, buried evidence, and the dangerous distance between what happened and what was made official.
