Where Venomous Snakes Sleep

Ryan Smith inherits a house in a country he has never seen, left to him by a grandfather he barely knew.

In a rural village in the South of France, that name still carries a scandal that drove the old man to America decades ago, and no one will explain the ruin except Camille Moreau, a reclusive French venomologist on the neighboring estate who is clearly keeping further secrets.

Camille knows the role Ryan's grandfather played in hiding a notorious man's crimes, a trail of bodies and silence, and the death of Camille's own mother.

Now the house belongs to Ryan, and Camille believes something concealed on the property may finally bring the truth into the open, though he is not the only one hunting for it.

Ryan came for answers about a relative he never loved; instead he walks into deadly snakes, inherited guilt, and a man with every reason to hate him.

For an American trans man caught between that grief-hardened neighbor and a threat already closing in, the devotion offered to him may be as dangerous as the secret still buried on his land.