The House Built on Alligator Bones

Dartrine Beaumont, called Dart, believes her mother's sudden death has left her with no family at all. Then she learns that wealthy relatives, the Greers, live in Florida. She travels to her grandmother's Gilded Age mansion on Amelia Island, hoping for answers and a place among them.

Greer House is not the welcome she imagined. The family money comes from alligator farming, and Dart arrives just in time to claim a share of that inheritance. Her grandmother is hostile, and the heir her grandmother favors is arrogant and sets himself against her at once.

Trouble is also building on one of the farms, where acts of vandalism grow more threatening. Her grandmother insists a curse is behind them. According to family legend, a giant alligator was hunted down by a bloodthirsty ancestor and still haunts the Greers.

Dart is skeptical, yet the farm's placid alligators hiss only at Greers, and a shadowy figure moves through the mansion's halls. This is a Gothic mystery with a family curse at its center. As she digs into the family's violent past, Dart must decide whether to accept the Greer legacy or break from it by facing a very different kind of beast.