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Good Bones: An Outer Banks Novel of Suspense
Every islander in Frisco knows the Ione House. Nobody will tell you why.
It went up the winter after Hurricane Ione, built by a fisherman with lumber he dragged off the beach himself. In 1961, eleven people sat down there for a Halloween supper. In the morning, the table was still set and the roast was still warm. The only living thing in the house was a six-toed cat.
Renae Basnight has sold four hundred Hatteras houses. She knows the ones with stories. When the Ione House comes to her as an estate listing, she takes it anyway.
Her husband Cliff believes in wood rot, bad foundations, and crooked builders. Then he starts finding wooden pegs where nails should be, ship's knees in the attic, and salt deep in timbers that haven't touched the ocean in seventy years. And every beam in the house points the same direction.
Toward Diamond Shoals.
This Halloween, the new owner is throwing a dinner party. She's set eleven places.
Inspired by the true story of the Carroll A. Deering, the Outer Banks' famous ghost ship, Good Bones is a haunting novel about a long marriage, an aging mother's sixty-five-year-old secret, and the island's oldest unsolved mystery.
She sells Hatteras houses. He repairs them. Together they discover some houses should have been left alone.
Good Bones is Book Four in the Hatteras Listings series and reads perfectly as a standalone.
It went up the winter after Hurricane Ione, built by a fisherman with lumber he dragged off the beach himself. In 1961, eleven people sat down there for a Halloween supper. In the morning, the table was still set and the roast was still warm. The only living thing in the house was a six-toed cat.
Renae Basnight has sold four hundred Hatteras houses. She knows the ones with stories. When the Ione House comes to her as an estate listing, she takes it anyway.
Her husband Cliff believes in wood rot, bad foundations, and crooked builders. Then he starts finding wooden pegs where nails should be, ship's knees in the attic, and salt deep in timbers that haven't touched the ocean in seventy years. And every beam in the house points the same direction.
Toward Diamond Shoals.
This Halloween, the new owner is throwing a dinner party. She's set eleven places.
Inspired by the true story of the Carroll A. Deering, the Outer Banks' famous ghost ship, Good Bones is a haunting novel about a long marriage, an aging mother's sixty-five-year-old secret, and the island's oldest unsolved mystery.
She sells Hatteras houses. He repairs them. Together they discover some houses should have been left alone.
Good Bones is Book Four in the Hatteras Listings series and reads perfectly as a standalone.
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Published October 12, 2026
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