Bound by Worth Hollow
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Last published Sun, Oct 5, 2025
🌲 Bound by Wroth Hollow 🌲
Some towns vanish from maps. This one vanishes from memory.
Detective Daniel Mercer arrives in Wroth Hollow seeking quiet answers. Instead, he finds a town wrapped in mist, where shadows linger longer than they should, and silence feels... rehearsed.
The streets are too still.
The woods, too watchful.
And the deeper he digs, the more the town begins to dig back.
Pulled by echoes he can't explain and names no one speaks aloud, Daniel finds himself caught between what is seen and what is felt-between truth and something far older.
🌲 Where memories rot beneath the roots, and time forgets to move forward.
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