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AshleighRusso
Ongoing, First published Apr 29, 2025
Mature
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Detective Sloane Hart knows the city's darkest corners-because she lives in them. When a string of murders targets women in the sex trade, each victim branded with a mysterious mark, the case strikes too close to home.

Her sister is spiraling. Her captain wants her off the case. And the bodies keep coming.

Caught between duty and obsession, Sloane navigates a web of secrets, temptation, and dangerous alliances-including a guarded club bouncer with a soldier's past, a charming stranger who sees too much, and a partner with whom she shares a buried history.

As the lines blur between justice and revenge, Sloane must decide how far she's willing to go to stop a killer who always seems one step ahead.

In a city built on silence, someone is watching. And this time, it's personal.
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Shadows in the Fog

21 parts Complete

When investigative journalist Evelyn Carter returns to her fog-shrouded hometown of Blackwood, she expects to cover a simple festival-but instead, she finds herself entangled in a chilling mystery. A respected doctor is found murdered in the town square, his dying message pointing to a buried past. As Evelyn digs deeper, more bodies appear, each death linked to a long-forgotten experiment hidden within the town's shadows. With the reluctant help of Detective Lucas Hayes, Evelyn uncovers The Holloway Experiment-a secret project that manipulated human perception, creating something that should never have been seen. As the fog thickens and the town's secrets unravel, Evelyn realizes she's being watched-not by people, but by something lurking in the mist. Some doors should never be opened. Some truths should remain buried. But it's too late now. The fog has already seen her.

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