HONAKER

HONAKER: Who Killed My Grandfather
Book One of the HONAKER Series
By Karen Badea

A grandmother's trunk. A watch with a hidden message. A murder that has haunted a family for twenty years.

Virginia, 1889. Twenty-four-year-old Sage Josephine Honaker knows how to repair a broken watch, run her family's business, and stand her ground. But nothing her beloved grandmother taught her could prepare her for the secrets left behind after her death.

For two decades, the Honakers have mourned James Philip Honaker, a gifted watchmaker and gunsmith reportedly murdered in Montana Territory. His coffin came home. The answers never did.

Now, discoveries inside her grandmother's trunk send Sage nearly two thousand miles west, determined to learn what happened to the grandfather whose name she carries.

In Virginia City, his workshop has stood locked and untouched for twenty years. Behind its door lies the beginning of a trail through missing gold, suspicious freight records, and a mysterious number that makes powerful men uneasy: 317.

With the help of unlikely allies, Sage follows the evidence beyond Montana-and discovers that her family's tragedy is part of something far larger than one man's murder. Someone has spent years protecting these secrets. Asking the wrong question could make her the next person they silence.

Set against the Appalachian Mountains and the American West, HONAKER: Who Killed My Grandfather blends historical mystery, suspense, and family devotion in the story of a woman determined to uncover the truth, whatever it costs.

She inherited her grandfather's skill, her grandmother's courage-and a mystery neither could lay to rest.