When forensic anthropologist, Marigold Merry, discovers the tiny skulls of three children while hiking on Graves Island, the cause of death is clear. They’d been victims of Josef Mengele-style medical experimentation, each showing signs of a drill hole bored through the front of their skulls prior to their death. Knowing this find has all the markings of Nazi Germany, Marigold contacts her brother who works for known Nazi hunter, Pádraig Cassidy, for help.

Hearing the news of this find, an Indigenous man, who only goes by ‘the Cardinal’ meets with Cassidy, and hires his firm to make a grid of Graves Island, using ground penetrating radar and LiDAR. The Cardinal believes Graves Island is the site of an unreported Residential School, where doctors who’d worked at death camps during World War II, and brought to Canada under a government program called ‘Operation Matchbox’,  plied their evil trade. His theory is that the experimentation these doctors of death used on the Jews at Auschwitz and other death camps, continued in Canada, but their victims were the children held captive in residential schools.

As the search continues, mass grave sites are discovered all over the island containing thousands of bodies. As the crisis escalates, the RCMP, the Federal Department of Policing and even Joint Task Force 2 are called in to assist.

But there’s more to this theory than meets the eye. What really happened on Graves Island? Where had these little children come from? Who killed them? And how was this allowed to happen unnoticed for decades in the sleepy village of East Chester, on an island expropriated by the provincial government in 1967, and used as a provincial park?

A sequel to the international award-winning ‘Wednesday Night Whites’, the usual cast of characters is back in action, as they search for answers, and discover the true identity of Adonis Toph, creator and CEO of the Worldwide Organization of White Supremacists, and the man who single-handedly brought Toph Enterprises 2.0 to the pinnacle of success using the blueprint forged in Nazi Germany during the Nazi’s reign of terror.

GRAVES ISLAND by Marci Lin Melvin will be available on Amazon September 1st, 2026.