The Hollow Witness
The morning the Victorian on Harlow Street went up in flames, reporter Maren Caldwell came home to bury her father and every illusion she'd carried about the town that raised her. Thornhallow greets her with frost, silence, and a council of men who believe their secrets died with the fire. They are wrong. Teaming with Darius Rook, a man who has waited years to see the council answer for its crimes, Maren begins pulling at threads that lead to a buried pharmaceutical conspiracy, a defective guard who once stood in the council's shadow, and a string of witnesses who vanished long before anyone thought to ask why. As trial looms and Maren's own brother resurfaces with a dangerous truth, the council moves to bury the case for good. Maren can walk away, keep what is left of her family safe, and let Thornhallow's guilty keep their silence, or she can take the stand, risk everything, and become the witness the powerful have spent decades trying to silence.