Some debts are inherited.
Some secrets outlive everyone who kept them.
Some stories choose you before you know how to tell them.
Rick Macali grew up in a town where organized crime moved quietly beneath the surface of ordinary life — present in ways you learned to read before you learned to name them. Years later, a brief period working in close proximity to that world gave him a different vantage point on the same quiet arrangement: how easily the ordinary and the buried can share the same street, the same family, the same silence.
That tension — between what a family shows the world and what it agrees never to say out loud — is the engine behind everything he writes.
He is currently at work on The Ledger, a planned trilogy of upmarket suspense novels that follow one family across four generations, a conspiracy with a hundred-and-fifty-year head start, and the question of what it actually costs to finally put a secret down.
He lives and writes in the Southeast.
A hundred and fifty years ago, thirteen names were signed to a covenant that was never meant to be broken. When Mara D'Agostino inherits a secret she never asked for, she has to decide whether the truth is worth what it will cost the only family she has left.
For readers of upmarket, family-secret suspense — in the tradition of Sally Hepworth, Jessica Strawser, and Michael Connelly.
Book One of the trilogy, The Thirteen Names, is in its final revision pass — sign up below to be first to hear when it's ready for readers.
A standalone story set in the same world, currently in early development. More details soon.
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