What Smoke Creek Kept

Smoke Creek has lived with its version of Ruth Ann Pruitt’s death for twenty years — a tragic accident, a life cut short, a community that moved on. But when a respected deacon confesses to causing her death, Pastor Elias Ward is forced to confront a truth that doesn’t fit the past he remembers.

Cassie Pruitt returns home determined to uncover what really happened to her mother. Elias wants to help her — but every answer exposes another lie, another betrayal, another piece of Smoke Creek’s carefully protected history.

Someone in town knows the truth. Someone has kept it buried. And someone is willing to break the town apart to keep it hidden.