The Silence After Dawn
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MatureComplete Tue, Oct 14, 202536m
When the sun rose over Hollow Creek, it brought silence instead of birdsong. No wind. No laughter. No sound but the tolling of the old church bell - a sound that hadn't been heard in seventeen years.
For Mara Whitfield, the quiet is more than unsettling- it's personal. Her name has appeared, carved deep into a stranger's door, on the same morning the town seems to hold its breath. As she searches for answers, Mara begins to uncover fragments of a buried truth: a disappearance long forgotten, a pact never spoken aloud, and a curse that seems to echo every time the dawn breaks.
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