Maelstrom — Ilsa Mayr

Beneath her celebrity status, recording artist Merrilee Ingram has secrets she's desperate to unlock. So she returns to her Appalachian roots in the mountain town of Browne's Station, Kentucky, determined to piece together memories of a fire that killed her mother when Merrilee was only four years old -- and confront the haunting shadow that terrifies her to this day.

Merrilee knows she's not welcome in town when she receives a note warning her to leave immediately…or suffer the consequences. Then she finds a copperhead on her front porch -- striking at her fear of snakes. Still, Merrilee pushes on. But as she uncovers long-buried secrets involving politics, sin and murder, her past is proving even more dangerous now, in the present, than ever before.