A New Series in Development
Pretty Dead
Nobody dies on purpose in Mercy. That is the first lie.
What it is.
The first thriller from Mythroot, and a hard turn off the fantasy shelf. Six books set in Mercy, a small lake town in the northern mountains that has built its whole identity, and its property values, on one promise: nothing bad ever happens here. The sign at the town line says so. The Regatta Club, where the founding families have run things for a hundred years, says so loudest of all. The promise is a lie, and keeping it is a quiet machine.
Two years ago that machine took Sunday Cross's sister. Margot drowned the night of the Founders' Regatta, it was ruled an accident, and the town quietly decided the truth was uglier: that her strange younger sister, the one who was down at the water that night, had something to do with it. Nobody charged Sunday. Everyone convicted her anyway. She did not touch Margot, and she is the only one still trying to prove what really happened.
So she works other people's cases. The kids of Mercy who have lost someone to an accident that does not add up come to her quietly, because she is the one person in town who will actually look. They call it the Accident Club. Every case Sunday cracks teaches her a little more about how the machine works, and pulls her one step closer to the night that ruined her.
The safest town in America
Mercy's whole brand, printed on the sign at the town line. It holds up the property values, the tourist season, and a hundred years of looking away.
The Accident Club
Sunday and her best friend Lou, quietly solving the deaths the adults agreed to call accidents. Low tech, human, and very hard to stop.
The girl who got away with it
Sunday's reputation is a wound and a weapon. People say incriminating things to a girl they already believe is a monster.
One case a book
Each book is a complete, fair-play mystery you can solve from the clues on the page. Each one also hands Sunday a new piece of what happened to Margot.
Margot
The sister at the bottom of the lake. The town remembers a marble saint. Sunday is the only one trying to recover the real one.
The machine
How a town turns a death into an accident, one signature at a time. Not a cabal of villains. Just decent people who decided the truth was bad for everyone.
The six books
