August 15, 2025

The Housebook

A desert inn. A vanished actress. And the stories that refuse to stay buried.

I've always been drawn to the spaces between truth and myth—the places where memory gets tangled with desire, and silence becomes its own kind of story.

The Housebook began with a simple question: What happens when a woman inherits not just a place, but all the secrets it's been keeping?

When Delia Langford arrives at a crumbling inn in the Mojave Desert, she expects dust and regret—not a mystery that's been waiting five decades to be told. Hidden within the The Mirage Inn's walls is The Housebook, a leather-bound journal chronicling the secrets of everyone who ever sought refuge there.

Among its pages: Claudine Bell, a golden-age Hollywood star who disappeared without a trace in 1974.

As Delia restores the inn with the help of Marcos, a local handyman with his own complicated past, she uncovers photographs, recordings, and letters that suggest Claudine's vanishing act was something far more deliberate—and dangerous—than anyone knew. But some stories come with a cost, and Delia must decide whether to expose the truth or protect it. This is a novel about the weight of silence, the stories we inherit, and what it means to finally stop running.

Cover reveal and release date to be announced.