What the Map Forgot

Walter Fenwick meant only to fix his floor. Nine years after Margaret passed, his knees and a late October cold finally push him out to the potting shed, where a pry bar and stubborn determination free a cedar box no one knew was buried beneath the boards. Inside: a letter addressed in handwriting that has no business still existing, and a name, Hollis Pane, that the town of has spent generations trying to forget. Sheriff Roy Cannady arrives with warnings dressed as advice. Librarian Owen Meeks arrives with questions dressed as courtesy. And when a quiet man in a green jacket starts appearing wherever the box has been, Walter understands that what the map forgot, somebody remembers well enough to kill for. Joined by neighbors Marigold Hask and Della Pruitt, Walter begins pulling at threads that lead through town records, old journals, and a photograph that should never have surfaced. Each answer raises the cost of the next question. The truth about Hollis Pane will not stay buried, but neither will the people who put her there. To finally lay the past to rest, Walter must choose whether some secrets are worth his life to keep, or worth everything to reveal.