The Reading Group

The Prospect, Colorado Series, Book 4

De: Scarlett Hayes

Narrado por: Claudette Eaton

Dorothy Cahill kept records.

Not out of habit—but because she believed what people said mattered enough to be kept.

For eleven years, a small reading group met every Tuesday in a quiet Colorado town. They talked about books. They shared opinions. They assumed they knew one another.

They were wrong.

When Dot dies, her will names a man no one has ever heard of—Fletcher Ames—as the sole beneficiary of her home and estate.

A stranger.

Eight miles away.

Living in town for months… without ever introducing himself.

With sixty days before the estate passes out of his reach, the group begins to investigate—not out of suspicion, but out of something deeper:

They want to understand why.

What they uncover is not a crime.

It’s a history.

A hidden correspondence carried across decades.

A choice made in 1961 that never stopped shaping the lives around it.

And a woman who spent the rest of her life trying to account for what she left behind.

The Reading Group is a quiet, character-driven literary mystery about memory, connection, and the long echo of the things we don’t say.

©2026 Scarlett Hayes (P)2026 Scarlett Hayes