The Substitute Daughter

When Hannah Ford inherited a saltbox house from a grandmother she had never met, she went up to Saltmere, Maine, to clean it out and sell it. The town welcomed her by the wrong name. The hardware store had her account on file. The minister knew the hymn she liked. And somewhere in the attic, in a steamer trunk no one had opened in forty years, was a Christmas card addressed to a girl who had her face.\n\nHannah is a museum archivist. She catalogs other people's lives for a living. Now, in a town where every shopkeeper remembers a Hannah Ford who was never her, she begins to catalog her own - index card by index card, footnote by footnote - until the archive shows her what Saltmere has been quietly maintaining for sixty years her truth is older than her. The town is in on it. And the people who arranged it are still arriving on the last ferry of the season. A standalone clean domestic thriller for fans of Jeremiah Winters. Book Two of The Substitute Series - each novel reads complete on its own. No graphic content. No cliffhangers. One woman, one archive, one way to put the record straight.