The Alibi She Built

Book 1 of the Blackwater Alibi Trilogy

Lauren Pritchard has spent years making herself ordinary.

A devoted wife. A mother. A church volunteer. The kind of woman people trust without thinking twice.

That is exactly why no one knows what she has done.

When a body is discovered inside an abandoned chapel outside Blackwater, homicide detective Wesley Pritchard gets the call before sunrise.

Wes knows murder. He knows lies.

And he believes he knows his wife.

Lauren knows better.

As the investigation tightens around Blackwater, every new lead brings Wes closer to a truth hiding inside his own home. Lauren's carefully built life begins to crack. Old names resurface. Questions become harder to answer. And the man who has spent his career hunting killers starts looking in a direction Lauren never planned for.

Because Lauren did not choose her life with Wes by accident.

She built it carefully.

She built an alibi around him.

Then she made the one mistake she never expected.

She fell in love with him.

Now the detective hunting the truth is the husband she cannot bear to lose.

The Alibi She Built is the first book in the Blackwater Alibi Trilogy, a domestic psychological thriller series about marriage, murder, loyalty, and how far someone will go to keep the life they were never supposed to have.

For readers who love psychological suspense, dangerous marriages, morally complicated characters, small-town murder investigations, and secrets hiding in plain sight.