The Silence After Dawn
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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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