{"product_id":"the-widows-orchard-daniel-parton-9798265972811","title":"The Widow's Orchard: A thriller about a missing girl, a buried secret, and a small town that never forgets.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe was digging a garden. She found a grave. And the roots had been keeping the secret for thirty-five years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen widow Eleanor Reeves turns the soil beneath her late husband's favorite apple tree, she unearths a rib cage - small, human, and decades old. Sheriff Cole Taggart knows before the forensics come back that this is no accident. Someone buried a body under the orchard and let the tree grow over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bones belong to Lacey Hart - seventeen, bright, and written off as a runaway in 1989 by a sheriff who never so much as opened a file. But Lacey didn't run. She was carrying a secret that someone in Raven Creek killed to keep buried, and the deeper Cole digs, the more the town closes ranks: a widow who swears her husband was no killer, a pastor guarding his son, a dying ex-sheriff who whispers three words - \u003ci\u003ehe wasn't alone\u003c\/i\u003e - and an orchard that seems to remember everything the living would rather forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs podcaster Abby Stratton and forensic examiner June Taggart pull the threads, they uncover forged reports, a tape that was never meant to be found, and a chain of silence that runs through half the town. But someone doesn't want the past dug up. Fires start. Notes appear in a dead man's handwriting. And Cole realizes the truth beneath the tree is only the first thing the orchard has been hiding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause in Raven Creek, one grave is never the whole story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou don't bury the truth in Raven Creek. You let it take root.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe third Raven Creek Files novel - a small-town Appalachian thriller of buried secrets, complicit silence, and the long reach of a crime the whole town chose to forget. For readers of William Kent Krueger, Chris Whitaker, and anyone who loves a mystery with soil under its nails. 100 short, cinematic chapters - impossible to put down.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Parton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798265972811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Daniel Parton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170411684095,"sku":"9798265972811","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-widows-orchard-daniel-parton-9798265972811","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}