The Sickness of Secrets

Paranormal psychological suspense — for readers of Jennifer McMahon and Simone St. James.

Elena Tate has been sober for twenty years. The secret she keeps is stranger than the drinking ever was — a supernatural gift, carried in the blood. Elena can borrow a bright memory from someone who offers it and carry its warmth into a person who’s sick to help them heal. The gift comes with one unbreakable rule. You can’t borrow without permission. Elena has never let herself use it often because heavy use took her mother’s sight and then her mind. But for months she has been stealing into her teenage daughter’s memories to stay close to a girl who’s slipping away.

Then a woman from her Friday-night recovery meeting is murdered, and the only thing that can tell Elena what really happened is the gift she swore she’d stop using—one that’s turning on her now, and pulling her toward the secrets her own family buried a generation ago.

Book One of The Borrowing Series. The cost is in the keeping.