Beverly Hattaway

2 booksMysteryThrillerAmateur Sleuth

Beverly Hattaway is a retired senior who has turned her sights toward sharing creative stories drawn from a diverse personal background. She has been a mother, a wife, a Seargent in the U.S. Army as a Military Police and Corrections NCO, and worked in the industrial construction industry where she dealt with friction cranes and operated hydraulic cranes and rigged items for lifts. She lives in Texas with her animal companions, Gertie, Gus, Squeak and Baby Huey (three dogs and a cat). Beverly finds inspiration in a wide variety of interests. She loves to sculpt, paint, and creates elaborate custom pinatas for her great grandchildren. The Ghostwriter’s Contract is her latest literary offering and she's now working on a Mara Devlin series.

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The Editor's Secret

A ghostwriter's dangerous discovery within the stolen pages of a literary legend's final confession

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Mara Devlin is used to being a ghost—a invisible hand shaping the legacies of others. But when her former editor, Jonas Reed, recruits her to finish the memoir of the legendary but disgraced Graham Holt, the job feels less like a career milestone and more like a trap. Holed up in a decaying lake house, Holt is a man haunted by a career-ending scandal and a ticking clock. As Mara sifts through his chaotic drafts, she realizes the narrative isn't just Holt’s. Alternating chapters written in a chillingly different voice emerge—voices stolen from the long-lost diary of Emily Rowan, a woman who vanished without a trace twenty years ago. The deeper Mara digs into the stolen prose, the more the official story unravels. Holt claims he didn't write the entries, but the evidence points to a dark connection between the literary icon and the missing woman. With Holt’s defensive daughter watching her every move and Jonas hiding his own history with the family, Mara must navigate a web of cold-blooded lies. In the quiet of the lake house, the truth is louder than ever. To finish the book, Mara will have to decide what matters more: protecting her career or exposing the secret that killed a girl two decades ago.

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The Ghostwriter’s Contract

A deadline to die for where the final chapter is written in blood

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For Mara Devlin, ghostwriting is a way to stay invisible while reclaiming a voice she nearly lost. But her latest assignment is anything but quiet. She’s been hired to finish the final thriller of Elliot Gray, a literary legend whose sudden death has left the world reeling. Deep within Gray’s coastal New England estate, Mara receives the author’s last notes from his enigmatic widow, Lucia. But as she sifts through the fragments of his imagination, she discovers something bone-chilling: the fictional murder in the manuscript isn’t a story at all. It is a mirror image of Gray’s own death, detailed down to the smallest, most gruesome detail. Buried in a hidden folder is a name that wasn't meant for the public: 'The Shadow.' Elliot Gray believed he was being hunted, and now, that hunt has turned toward Mara. When a specific page from the outline is left on her pillow inside a locked cottage, Mara realizes she isn't just finishing a book—she's following a map to a killer who is still watching from the New England mist. In a world where the line between fiction and reality is razor-thin, Mara must solve the mystery of the Shadow before she becomes the final character in a story she didn't choose to write.

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