The Tenth Mark

For nine months, the mountain town of Hemlock Falls has lived in quiet dread. Nine victims. Nine months. Each body was left with a carved symbol, and no clear link between them. The press calls them The Silent Nine. The locals call it a curse. No suspects. No answers. Just whispers in the dark. Evelyn Thorne hoped Hemlock Falls would be a place to disappear. A place to write. To raise her son in peace. But when the killer's mark appears on her property, peace gives way to paranoia-and then, to purpose. Drawn into a mystery the town refuses to face, Evelyn uncovers fragments of an unfinished ritual, a buried history of cult-like devotion, and the chilling sense that her family has been marked for something far worse than death. Now, with herself and her son caught in the killer's shadow, Evelyn must confront the darkness before she becomes the final chapter in a story written in blood.