Traveling the country building one-of-a-kind houses, Sam, his new wife, Anna, and two golden retriever puppies were in West Virginia building a log home for Sam's parents' retirement. In this first book in The House That Sam Built mystery series, Sam and Anna collided head-on with gruesome, decades-old secrets that unfolded around them in the rural neighborhood near the town of Paw Paw. Despite life-threatening challenges from man and nature, Sam's wry humor weaves a gripping, fast-paced story of mystery and life in the not-too-distant past of the 1990s that you will not want to put down.