Main Dishes

At 21, she was kicked out of her home and bought an old toll booth for one dollar, a place the whole town considered worthless. No one thought that forgotten place was still holding anything, until the crumbling wall revealed the final secret her father had once hidden. At twenty-one years old, Emily Carter owned…

At 20, she was kicked out of her home and had only enough money to buy the old lamplighter’s house for one dollar. But no one knew that the quiet place high above town was hiding a secret the town’s darkness had covered up for years. At twenty, Emma Calloway bought the old Lamplighter’s House…

At 21, the homeless girl bought a ruined ten-dollar church that the whole town avoided just so she would have a place to stay for the night. But behind its rotting door was a secret that terrified the entire town. At twenty-one, Lena Hart bought a ruined church for ten dollars because she needed a…

My graduate degree could not save me from a homeless night inside an abandoned farm. I thought I only needed to survive until morning, until I dug up a buried diary and realized that place was holding a secret that knew my name. The first night I slept in the abandoned farmhouse, I kept my…

The whole town once laughed when she inherited forty acres of swamp they called worthless. But beneath that silent mud, a buried secret was waiting for the day it would turn the land everyone looked down on into the path that brought justice back. When Clara Whitmore first saw the forty acres her grandmother had…

Fresh out of juvenile detention, she thought her past had closed every road back. But the secret map her mother left behind led her to a forgotten farm, where old memories began to reveal the truth about her life. The morning Cedar Ridge Reformatory released me, the sky looked like dirty dishwater. That was the…

For eighteen years in the orphanage, she believed she was nothing more than a name the world had forgotten. But on the day she had almost stopped hoping, an old clue led her to the grandfather who had never stopped searching for her. For eighteen years, I believed I was nothing more than a name…

After the divorce, he took everything and believed she had nothing left to hold on to. But he forgot that some things are so cheap no one pays attention to them, like the one-dollar cabin holding a secret that could help her stand back up again. After the divorce, Blake Whitaker took the house, the…

No one takes their child down into an old eight-hundred-dollar bunker if they still have another choice. But that night, what was waiting below revealed a secret that could change both of their lives. No one takes their child down into an old eight-hundred-dollar bunker if they still have another choice. Mara Whitaker knew that…

Five days after her husband’s funeral, she was forced out of the house she once called home by her husband’s child from a previous marriage. Just when she thought she had lost everything, the old ninety-nine-dollar house revealed the final secret her husband had quietly left behind. Five days after her husband’s funeral, Margaret Whitaker…