The Lady In White
A Hope’s Bay Ghost Mystery
COMING SUMMER 2026
It’s been a year since Kate Morgan’s husband left, and her once bestselling career as a cozy mystery author has slowed to a crawl. With just her corgi, Ralph, as company, the only craft Kate’s been honing lately is the art of avoiding real life.
Then she hears about Fannie McKay — “The Lady in White,” the ghost of a young woman who took her life after her rum-running lover, Jacob, left her over a century ago. The town legend says that Fannie roams the shores of Lake Huron, looking for her beloved and inviting other young women to join her in the icy depths of the great lake.
Curious but skeptical, Kate travels to Hope’s Bay and checks into the very house that once inspired her novels. There, among creaking floors and the scent of lake air, Kate senses that Fannie’s story isn’t finished — and maybe neither is hers. As she finally embraces her long-denied ability to speak with the dead, Kate finds herself pulled deeper into a century-old mystery and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Along the way, she’s drawn into her own journey of rediscovery — of love, loss, and the courage to start again.
What if living a great story turned out to be
infinitely better than writing one?
About Nan…
Nan Rowe wanted to be an author since she was seven years old and attended a young author’s convention at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Nan’s parents didn’t have a lot of money for new books, so she borrowed from the library and read her favorites over and over: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The Little House on the Prairie series, The Trumpet of The Swan, and Charlotte’s Web, to name a few.
Many years later, Nan is now an artist and illustrator happily retired from the scrapbooking and home decor industry. In her spare time she practices yoga, backpacks, hikes and attends her monthly Well Red Wine Club (er, Book Club!). Her most-read genres are mysteries, psychological thrillers and women’s fiction. The idea for The Lady in White came from her family’s camping trips to Forester, Michigan, where they first heard of the story of the ghost of Minnie Quay. Although she never saw her spirit, Nan always wanted to know more about Minnie’s life, so she re-imagined it through Fannie. (obviously, the author needs some work coming up with more original character names!)
Nan lives outside of Detroit with her husband and a very needy, but adorable Beagle rescue named Pookie.
