The next JayTree mysteries

Three new mysteries.
Three reasons to doubt what you know.

A place misrepresented on paper. An original nobody can find. A familiar road into an unfamiliar past. Something new is taking shape at JayTree Books.

Upcoming novels · Working titles and promotional concept artwork · Release dates to be announced

Overlapping survey drawings overlook a Wyoming valley and weathered foundations.
Complete manuscript · Final editorial review

Where Mercy Stood

A town stood here. The records tell another story.

Two survey drawings. One Wyoming settlement. A version of history someone needed believed. Researcher Tessa Rook follows the discrepancy into a modern death—and a past whose consequences have never stayed buried.

What happened where Mercy stood?

Tell Me When There’s More
An old photographic album and overlapping index sheets inside a shadowy industrial archive.
In development

The Fifth Copy

Five copies. One missing original. Whose version would you trust?

A rare photographic album disappears. An archive technician takes the blame. Lena Marr signed the inventory that made the accusation credible. To uncover the theft, she must question the record—and expose the mistake behind her own name.

When every copy tells a different story, who gets believed?

Tell Me When There’s More
A weathered sign beside a rainbound New England lane leading to a warmly lit cottage.
In development

The Sixth Town

The road is familiar. The history isn't.

An offer to leave. A name that does not match. A home Mae Rowan's mother may lose before anyone asks the right question. Beyond the rainbound hill roads, an old record points toward a family history—and a settlement nobody can quite account for.

How do you protect a home built on a story you don't know?

Tell Me When There’s More
You don't have to wait for the next mystery

Five stories are already waiting for you.

Until the new doors open, step into the mysteries that came before. Each is a standalone story. Start with the question that unsettles you most—and read Chapter One free here on the website.

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Second Draft

Nora helps people rehearse impossible conversations—until the rehearsals begin changing reality.

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The Hollow Year

In Amity Hollow, one person is erased from every living memory each October.

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The Hollow Bell

Twenty years after Marnie Renner vanished, her remains surface beneath the ice—and a bell tied to old drownings starts ringing again.

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The Absconding

Del returns after her mother dies beside the family beehives. The hives fall silent, and an old family ritual says the story is wrong.

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The Correction

A correction slip changes more than the official record—it changes what Averill Falls remembers.

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