Spring Melt

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Genres

Crime Mystery, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Women's Fiction, Novels, Adult, and Historical

Trigger Warnings

Rape

Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Mar 10, 2026

Page Length

281 pages

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Spring Melt

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Blurb

Long-buried crimes awaken danger, expose corruption and shatter lives.

As a doctor’s wife in a thriving Adirondack village in the 1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an ideal life. Her husband grew rich catering to New York City socialites who wanted to hide their TB diagnoses from their friends. Their marriage is devoid of emotion, but so is she, having learned long ago to quietly accept whatever life offers. But all that changes when three men are charged with a nineteen-year-old murder, and the long-buried crime that shaped Ella’s childhood is exposed.

SPRING MELT draws on the rich and fascinating history of the Adirondacks, where hikers who see only low hills and lush vegetation fail to perceive the hidden dangers and lose their lives by stepping two feet off the trail. Since the late 1800s, the wilderness that is the Adirondacks has been both a frontier to be conquered only by the hardiest of humans and a playland for the wealthy. When these two worlds collide, the resulting explosion can be fatal.

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