About The Salt Widow:
Truth is a tide. You can’t keep it from coming in.
When Janessa “Nessa” Douglas inherits her grandmother’s house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairy tales about women who kept dangerous secrets.
When a college intern named Ivy Camden vanishes while studying those same folktales, Nessa’s plans are pulled out to sea. Ivy’s research hints that Elspeth’s most infamous story, The Salt Widow, was not born of myth but of murder.
With help from her childhood friend, Nessa begins to unravel the buried history of the town: drowned girls, a power family’s cover-up, and a legacy of silence stretching back more than a century. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes her grandmother’s stories weren’t warnings. They were confessions.
As storms roll in from the bay and old sins rise with the tide, Nessa must decide whether to flee from her family’s darkness or finish what the Salt Widow started.
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Author Bio:
Dr. Teresa Crowe is a professor at Gallaudet University and a clinical social worker with 37 years of experience in behavioral health, specializing in working with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. She has authored numerous academic articles on mental health, resilience, and well-being. Teresa’s first book, “Death Space”, is a gripping true crime account of two murders at Gallaudet University, accompanied by four companion books.
In addition to nonfiction, Teresa also writes mysteries and recently published “Tides of Deception: Past Imperfect,” the first novel in her Chesapeake Murder Series. She resides near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, where she enjoys reading, camping, and spending time with her husband and dogs.