The Blackwood Reckoning

When Lucas Ashford returns to the windswept shores of Meridian Bay, he carries a dead mother's diary and a lifetime of calculated hatred. His target: the powerful Blackwood family—his father's dynasty—built on a land empire that was never rightfully theirs. One by one, Lucas will strip them of their properties, their reputation, and their sanity, using the very laws they once manipulated to destroy his mother. But as the boundaries between adjacent lives blur like the contested waterfront lots at the heart of his scheme, Lucas discovers that filling the void inside him requires more than victory. It demands a sacrifice measured in blood, legacy, and ultimately, life itself.