The Ashford Covenant

In the rust-belt city of Corwick, private investigator Lila Thorne is hired to untangle a venomous inheritance dispute within the Ashford automotive dynasty. The patriarch’s will threatens to disinherit anyone who participated in a decades-old family secret. But when a former saleswoman’s sexual harassment lawsuit mirrors patterns of abuse stretching back to the dealership’s founding, Lila realizes she is not just exposing a corporate culture of predation—she is descending into a psychological maze where her own buried lineage is the darkest corner. Every truth she uncovers forces her to confront the chilling possibility that the curse she hunts is already in her blood.