Beneath the Rock

Fourteen‑year‑old Mary Ann Hamilton has always trusted the quiet rhythms of her small Elgin life—until the cracks begin to show. Her mother's late‑night whispers. The missing money. A sudden disappearance followed by an even stranger return… glowing, secretive, and calling herself by a new name.When Mary Ann is swept into the orbit of Liam Robertson—a wealthy stranger with a smile carved from ice—...