THE WASHWOMAN AT THE RIVER’S END

At the river's end, the dead tell her secrets. She is the woman no one wants to know. The washwoman. Every week, the river carries another body to her doorstep, and she performs the work others are too afraid to touch. She washes the blood from the dead, closes their eyes, and prepares them for the grave. She has learned not to ask questions. Until one body arrives that she cannot explain. A dead man with no name. A wound that doesn't belong to an accident. And a secret hidden where only her hands could find it. Then he comes for her. He is a stranger with a cold purpose and a deadly reputation. His orders are simple: Find the washwoman at the river's end. Kill her. He expects a frightened woman. Instead, he finds someone who looks at death every day and refuses to be afraid of it. He is supposed to end her life. He never expected to become obsessed with saving it. As danger closes around them, suspicion gives way to reluctant trust. Their encounters become charged with a desire neither can afford. Every touch threatens to expose them. Every kiss brings them closer to a truth that could destroy them both. Because he wasn't sent to kill her by chance. Someone wants her silenced. Someone knows what she has discovered. And someone is willing to spill far more blood to keep the secret buried. Now the man who came to murder her must make an impossible choice: Obey the order that brought him to the river—or betray everything he has ever believed for the woman he was never supposed to love. But the washwoman has secrets of her own. She knows something about the dead. Something about the river. Something about the past. And when the truth finally surfaces, neither of them will be able to return to the lives they knew before they met. Because the most dangerous secret isn't who wants her dead. It's why. THE WASHWOMAN AT THE RIVER'S END is a haunting, atmospheric historical romance filled with murder, forbidden desire, dangerous secrets, enemies-to-lovers tension, betrayal, redemption, and a love powerful enough to defy death. For readers who crave slow-burning romance, mysterious strangers, morally complicated heroes, fearless heroines, deadly secrets, emotional twists, and love forged in the most dangerous circumstances, this is a story that will pull you into the river—and refuse to let you go. She was never supposed to trust him. He was never supposed to love her. And neither of them was supposed to survive the truth. At the river's end, the dead are waiting. But the living have the most dangerous secrets.