November 12th, 2026
Home | Log in!
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Welcome to FreshFiction

Are you a reader
or an author?

Help us personalize your experience. Choose your role below.
You can always change this later using the switcher button.

or

You can switch anytime using the floating button.

Limited Time Fresh Fiction Access

Exclusive Marketing Opportunities for Authors

Curious about how Fresh Access helps authors gain more visibility and connect with active readers?

Discover premium promotional opportunities, enhanced exposure, and author-focused services designed to help your books stand out.

Read More →
On Top Shelf
Fresh Pick
RIDER OF DRAGONS
📚 New Books This Week 📰 Latest News 🎪 Reader Games
The Dead Key by D.M. Pulley

Purchase

Add to Wish List


Also by D.M. Pulley:

Stone Mad, October 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
The Dead Key, March 2015
Paperback / e-Book

THE DEAD KEY
By: D.M. Pulley

Thomas & Mercer
March 2015
On Sale: March 1, 2015
Featuring: Iris Latch
ISBN: 1477820876
EAN: 9781477820872
Kindle: B00LWE0QZM
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Suspense

It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world.

Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost.

In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vaultβ€”and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.