The Curse of Hemlock Island
Iris Blackwood is twelve, sharp, and almost always right. Someone just threw her into a wooden crate and dropped it in a river.
The case that started everything.
Iris Blackwood is twelve years old, lives on Saint Hyde Island (near Jekyll) off the Georgia coast, and keeps a Detective Notepad filled with rules she's learned through hard experience. She is sharp, occasionally bossy, and almost always right. She's also just been thrown into a wooden crate and dropped in a river by someone who doesn't want her on Hemlock Island.
The Curse of Hemlock Island is the first book in the Iris Blackwood Mystery Adventures, an interactive detective fiction where you choose what Iris does next. Follow a lead or explore the island? Trust the stranger or keep your distance? Every path leads somewhere different, and not every ending solves the case.
27 different endings. Five achievement levels, from Junior Investigator to Super Sleuth. A mystery that rewards rereading. The path you didn't take is always waiting.
For readers ages 10–13 who are ready for a protagonist who models sharp thinking and puts them in charge of the investigation.
The book in plain numbers.
Three books. One detective.
Book 4: The Dancing Lighthouse. Fall 2026