The Overnight Guest
A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm. She thought she
was alone. True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn't mind being snowed in at the isolated
farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It
would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people
were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace.
As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the
secrets contained within its walls -- haunted by secrets of her own. Then she discovers a
small child in the snow just outside. Bringing the child inside for warmth and safety, she
begins to search for answers. But soon it becomes clear that the farmhouse isn't as
isolated as she thought, and someone is willing to do anything to find them.
About the author...
Heather was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. At one month
of age, her family returned to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota where
her father was employed as a guidance counselor and her mother as a school nurse. At
the age of three, her family moved to Iowa, where she grew up. Having been born with a
profound unilateral hearing loss (there were many evenings when Heather and her father
made a trip to the bus barn to look around the school bus for her hearing aids that she
often conveniently would forget on the seat beside her).
Heather tended to use books as a retreat, would climb into the toy box that her father’s
students from Rosebud made for the family with a pillow, blanket, and flashlight, close
the lid, and escape the world around her. Heather became a voracious reader and the
seed of becoming a writer was planted.
Heather lives in Iowa with her family and a very spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer
named Lolo. In her free time, Heather enjoys spending time with her family, reading,
swimming, and hiking.