Some men fake their death and disappear cleanly. Julian Whitmore was not that kind of man.

Set against the gray skies and cold water of Point Roberts, Washington, in the early 1970s, this novel follows a calculated act of deception that unravels in ways its architect never anticipated. Julian Whitmore is charming, intelligent, and entirely without conscience ? the kind of man who plans everything down to the last detail and believes that the dead, like the past, stay where you put them.

They don't.

What begins as a story of greed, betrayal and reinvention gradually darkens into something older and more unsettling ? a reckoning that moves through the fog of the Pacific Northwest like a presence that cannot be reasoned with, bargained with, or outrun.

Part gothic thriller, part supernatural horror, What Julian Whitmore Buried is a novel about the weight of secrets, the persistence of the past, and the particular danger of believing you have gotten away with something.

Julian Whitmore buried more than he intended to.

And not everything he buried was willing to stay down.