The Dresses of Drowning Creek

When fashion designer Drucilla Pettibone’s career implodes, an unexpected inheritance offers refuge: her great-aunt Rose’s farmhouse in Toadflax Springs, North Carolina, along with 150 handmade dresses that hold more than fabric and thread. But Rose died under mysterious circumstances, the graduate student researching the dresses has been murdered, and the dresses themselves seem to have their own ideas about justice.

Southern Gothic women’s fiction with mystery and romance. Now seeking representation.