Description
St. Harlow's Academy is the kind of school that prides itself on prestige and silence. Hidden among dense woods and perpetual rain, its corridors are lined with honour boards, gilded secrets, and girls taught to smile through bruises they never admit to having. Selene Voss, the school's composed, intuitive counsellor and literature teacher, walks these halls like a ghost with purpose-calm, watchful, and infinitely kind. The girls trust her. The staff praises her. But no one really knows her. Not truly.When a string of seemingly unconnected murders shakes the quiet town of Blackridge, all involving men with pasts best left buried, panic begins to ripple beneath the surface. There's no pattern. No motive. Just blood, silence, and a growing fear that someone is making people disappear. Enter Detective Callum Devereux-once the most lauded profiler in the country, now a widowed father on forced leave, battling ghosts of his own. When the investigation pulls him back to work and leads him straight to St. Harlow's-where his daughter is already enrolled-he's forced to confront not just the case... but the woman at its centre because Selene knows something. Callum can't decide if he wants to trust her. Or uncover her. Or save her. Or stop her. All he knows is this: Every question he asks leads to another lie. Because not all stories end.
Prologue
