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The Orphanage By The Lake
Series · 2 books · 2024-2025

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#1

The Orphanage By The Lake

2024

A MISSING GIRL AN ORPHANAGE FULL OF SECRETS Hazel wants a new life. She’s thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding. Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays Hazel a visit with an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disappeared from a children’s home—The Orphanage By The Lake, as the locals call it—and Madeline wants Hazel to find her. At first glance, it appears to be a standard runaway case, but as Hazel plunges into the investigation, she finds signs of something more: unexplained blood stains, cryptic symbols, sinister figures shadowing her every move. The more she digs, the more she realizes that The Orphanage By The Lake holds terrifying secrets, and even worse… …so does Madeline.
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The Red Letter

2025

A spine\-tingling new suspense\-thriller from bestselling author Daniel G. Miller that will keep your heart racing to the last page. A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER. Hazel has everything she wants. Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter. Hazel investigates the murder as a favor to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter...and one victim has ties to a psychopath from a past life that Hazel thought she had buried. One by one, the red letters continue to appear, and with every letter, another killing, each more mysterious than the last. As Hazel closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on her, and Hazel begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the people around her. Even worse, Hazel discovers that the only way to find the truth is to open one more...

Author

Daniel G. Miller
Daniel G. Miller
Author · 5 books

Daniel G. Miller is an entrepreneur and former business consultant with a master’s degree in public policy and economics. In his work in economics and consulting he witnessed the power of complex logic trees and mathematical models to predict real-world events. This experience with prediction in business inspired the question, “what if we could use math to predict everything in our lives”. From there, The Tree of Knowledge was born. He currently lives in Dallas, TX with his fiancé, Lexi.

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