United States, 3rd Jun 2026 — Some secrets don’t stay buried. They grow roots. With that haunting promise, indie author Candace Nicole introduces Tangled Roots, the chilling first installment of her new psychological thriller series, The Root Series — now available to readers everywhere.

A bold departure into darker territory for the author known for “love, lies and everything in between,” Tangled Roots opens twelve years after Clark Delaine drowned at his lakehouse. The police ruled it an accident. They were wrong. When an anonymous letter surfaces, threatening to drag the truth into the light, five strangers who have spent more than a decade burying that truth find their carefully separated lives suddenly — and dangerously — colliding.

As the past claws its way back, dark secrets emerge about the man everyone believed they knew. And in a story where no one is telling the whole truth, the most devastating revelation is the one no reader will see coming.

“This book lives in the space between what people show the world and what they hide from it,” said Candace Nicole. “I wanted to write something that keeps readers up at night, second-guessing every character — including the ones they trust.”

Candace Nicole is a Central Virginia–based indie author whose work spans contemporary romance and psychological suspense. An avid reader since childhood, she writes with a mind full of characters demanding their stories be told, bringing equal parts heart and intensity to every page. Tangled Roots marks an ambitious new chapter — trading the swoon for the slow burn while keeping the emotional depth her readers have come to love.

For fans of unreliable narrators, simmering mystery, and twist-driven suspense, Tangled Roots is the kind of book best read with the doors locked.

Tangled Roots is available now, including signed copies, at www.cnbookseries.com. Readers can connect with Candace Nicole across all platforms at linktr.ee/cnbookseries.

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