Annika Hale

The Heart’s Cove Files

Small-town romantic suspense on the Oregon coast

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Heart’s Cove is the kind of Oregon coast town where everyone knows your business and nobody tells the truth about it. Each book follows a new couple pulling at an old case the town would rather leave buried, with a slow-burning romance and a hard-won happy ending.

Author
Annika Hale
Genre
Small-town romantic suspense
Setting
Heart’s Cove, a small Oregon coast town twenty minutes south of Astoria
Format
Kindle, free to read with Kindle Unlimited

Reading order

  1. Book 1, out now

    The Woman They Blamed

    Eleven years for a murder she didn’t commit. Now she wants one thing: the name of the man who did.

    Mara Quinn walks out of prison with two hundred forty-seven dollars, a prepaid phone, and a letter from a small firm that doesn’t believe she killed her best friend, Josie Renfrew. She isn’t looking for an apology. She’s looking for a name.

    Inside: wrongfully convicted heroine, hero with a guilty secret, slow burn, forced proximity, small-town secrets, partners in an investigation

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  2. Book 2, out Monday, November 2

    The Father They Blamed

    Who took Cody Barrow, and can the father everyone blames help bring him home?

    Six years ago, seven-year-old Cody Barrow vanished from the timber country outside Heart’s Cove, Oregon. His father, Eli, was never charged. He was never forgiven, either. Now the case has cracked open again, and the town’s old suspicion is back at his door.

    Inside: cold case reopened, wrongly suspected hero, K-9 search partner, small-town secrets, protective hero, comfort in grief

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  3. Book 3, out Monday, November 9

    The Unfound Woman

    The storm gave up bones, but not hers. So where is Delia Strand, and who wants her kept hidden?

    When a winter storm tears open the sand spit outside Heart’s Cove, the whole town believes Delia Strand has finally come home. Forensic archaeologist Priya Raman knows better within hours. The bones are more than a century old. Delia is still missing, years after she vanished. And the case that sent a man to prison for her death suddenly looks far less settled.

    Inside: cold case reopened, partners reunited, small-town secrets, slow burn, wounded hero, watcher in the shadows

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