by Mara Vance
A small-town detective returns home to solve a disappearance that mirrors her own buried past.
When Detective Ruth Alder comes back to Hollow Creek after fifteen years, she expects quiet streets and old ghosts. Instead she finds a missing girl, a town that remembers too much, and a lantern that burns in a window no one will claim.
A taut, atmospheric mystery about memory, guilt, and the things small towns keep in the dark.