Cast Out Before Winter With Only Two Silver Coins, Mary Reed Climbed to an Abandoned Army Fort for Shelter — But When She Opened a Locked Paychest Hidden Beneath Twenty Years of Dust, the Papers Inside Threatened the Men Who Had Taken Her Home

Cast Out Before Winter With Only Two Silver Coins, Mary Reed Climbed to an Abandoned Army Fort for Shelter — But When She Opened a Locked Paychest Hidden Beneath Twenty Years of Dust, the Papers Inside Threatened the Men Who Had Taken Her Home

Everyone Said Ash Hollow Had Vanished in an 1878 Fire—But When Orphaned Rose Mercer Bought the Forgotten Land in 1890, She Found Her Own Family’s Graves, Buried Records Beneath the Ruins, and Proof That One of the Men Who Burned the Town Was Still Watching Her

Everyone Said Ash Hollow Had Vanished in an 1878 Fire—But When Orphaned Rose Mercer Bought the Forgotten Land in 1890, She Found Her Own Family’s Graves, Buried Records Beneath the Ruins, and Proof That One of the Men Who Burned the Town Was Still Watching Her
With Snow Closing Over Pine Hollow, 23-Year-Old Martha Mercer Followed A Creek Into A Giant Cave Looking For Shelter — Then Her Candle Revealed A Complete Wooden House Hidden Deep Inside The Mountain, And One Name Carved Above Its Door Made The Discovery Far More Personal

With Snow Closing Over Pine Hollow, 23-Year-Old Martha Mercer Followed A Creek Into A Giant Cave Looking For Shelter — Then Her Candle Revealed A Complete Wooden House Hidden Deep Inside The Mountain, And One Name Carved Above Its Door Made The Discovery Far More Personal