Author Description

Irene Albright mysteriously disappeared from her rural California town leaving behind a heartbroken husband and bewildered teenage daughter. More than thirty years later, her granddaughter, Eleanor Westover, is finally fed up with a seven year relationship that is going nowhere. Always curious about the grandmother nobody talks about, and in need of a good distraction from her own heartache, Ellie leaves Phoenix and heads for her Grandpa’s house in the hills of southern California. It’s the first time she’s ever been in this old mining town and she finds it both charming and strange. And full of secrets. Ellie quickly finds herself trapped between the present and the past as she attempts to unravel a complex mystery that challenges everything she knew about her own life and the afterlife. Her own insecurities surface as she struggles to distinguish what is real from what might be imagined. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she must learn to trust herself and her own intuition, as she navigates her own feelings about herself, her family, and the kind of love worth risking everything for. Though Bury Me Deeper contains many elements associated with classic gothic ghost stories, the story itself is less about what can’t be explained and more about the journey to define the realities we hope for: family, friendship, and love.