Echo of Betrayal (Echo Falls: Secrets Beneath the Surface #1)
Elias North
She came home to bury her father.
Instead, she may have to expose him.
When Echo Falls’ longtime mayor is found dead at the base of Blackridge Cliff, the town calls it a tragic accident.
Investigative journalist Rowan Hale calls it a lie.
Returning to the mountain town she fled ten years ago means facing more than old memories. It means working beside Sheriff Cole Mercer—the man she loved, the man she left, and the only one standing between her and the truth.
The deeper Rowan digs, the more the cracks begin to show.
A secret land deal.
Anonymous payments.
A decades-old feud between two founding families.
And evidence that her father’s death wasn’t random—it was a warning.
As a winter storm traps the town and tensions rise, Rowan and Cole find themselves hunting a killer who knows Echo Falls intimately… and who isn’t done silencing people.
But solving this case means uncovering secrets that could destroy Rowan’s family—and any chance she and Cole have at a second beginning.
Echo of Betrayal is the gripping first installment in the Echo Falls romantic suspense series, perfect for fans of slow-burn romance, small-town secrets, and twist-filled investigations.
Some secrets are buried for a reason.
Some are worth dying for.
