The Alabaster Box: The Secret Within
The Alabaster Box Summary : When widowed defense attorney Grace Mallory inherits an unassuming alabaster box from her estranged grandmother—an old recluse who died under mysterious circumstances in rural Mississippi—she assumes it’s nothing more than a quaint keepsake. But when her teenage son, Sam, opens the box, strange visions begin to plague them both, visions of a long-forgotten murder, a shuttered church, and whispers of a pact sealed in blood. Set in the small, crumbling town of Bethel’s Rest, Mississippi—a town clinging to old ghosts and older secrets—The Alabaster Box unfolds like a Southern Gothic legal thriller wrapped in supernatural horror. As Grace fights a wrongful conviction case that echoes the past too closely, she begins to suspect the box may hold more than memories—it may hold truth itself. But truth, as she discovers, is a dangerous thing to open. Characters: Grace Mallory: A skeptical, principled defense attorney with a painful past and an instinctive distrust of...