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What the Threads Remember

Her mentor left her a house, a history, and a quilt that tells a 30-year-old lie.

Cozy MysteriesSmall-Town Life

12 chapters published of 25 planned · about 61 min of reading · 11 reads · Updated today · ongoing

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Textile conservator Genevieve Martel, 52, thought she was just going home to Seneca Quay to settle her late mentor's estate. A quick, clean job, and then back to her quiet, orderly life in Philadelphia. But Elspeth Finch, the town's beloved historian and master quilter, left behind one final, secret project: an intricate story quilt.

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As Genna begins to decode the quilt's symbols, she realizes it tells a different story of the town's most infamous tragedy—the disappearance of a charismatic young man thirty years ago. The threads point to a cover-up, implicating the very people who built Seneca Quay into what it is today. To uncover the truth, Genna must use her unique skills to read the stitches and knots, unspooling a secret that the town's most powerful residents will do anything to keep buried.

All chapters12

  1. 1The Wanderer's Logo5 min
  2. 2Grammar of Stitches4 min
  3. 3The Wrong Floorboard4 min
  4. 4Deliberately Stitched Over4 min
  5. 5The Shape in the Binding4 min
  6. 6The Stone That Moved6 min
  7. 7Careful Who You Ask6 min
  8. 8Croft Vineyard Green5 min
  9. 9Box of Secrets5 min
  10. 10The Impact Stitch6 min
  11. 11A Tidy Story6 min
  12. 12Nothing With a Name5 min

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