Harlow — Kathi Daley

(Harlow was originally published in 2019. The second edition of the book has been reworked and reedited.)Bookstore owner Harlow Hathaway buys forty boxes of books, some rare and some not, at the estate sale of a man who recently died. With the help of her best friend Cooper Callaway, she begins to inventory her purchase and finds a complete set of signed novels penned by her favorite author of all time, Alistair Winslow. Winslow is a reclusive writer who spins his tales from a secret hideaway. Most assume that Alistair Winslow is a pen name and not a given name, but while many have tried, none have been able to unmask the man and reveal his true identity. At the bottom of one of the boxes is an envelope with what looks to be pages from an unpublished manuscript. Harlow is sure the manuscript was penned by Winslow and that the novel, which is much different than his other work, holds a secret to his true identity. Harlow and Coop take to the road in search of answers relating to the reclusive author and his relationship with the reluctant heir who appears to have been his friend.