About The blackwood knot (The Blackwood Case Files Book 1)
Some places don’t just break you. They remind you that you were already broken.
Mark Cross knows this. He came to Blackwood to drink himself into oblivion—to drown in the fog and the silence and the cold. A washed-up detective with a dead marriage and a father who abandoned him, he has nothing left to lose.
But Blackwood doesn’t let people disappear quietly.
When Elena, the only woman who ever made him feel whole, is taken from the pier, Mark is forced to remember who he used to be. Not a hero. Not a savior. Just a man who can’t walk away.
As the fog thickens and the town closes in, Mark discovers that Blackwood isn’t just corrupt—it’s a wound that never healed. And at the center of it all, waiting in the shadows, is a truth about his own blood that will either destroy him—or set him free.
This is not a story about crime.
This is a story about a man who must face the one thing he’s spent his whole life running from:
Himself.









