Shadows Beneath Mercy Glen

Every secret has a witness. Every lie leaves a ledger.

One year after the quiet murder that shook the heart of Mercy Glen, archivist Elinor Voss is drawn into another mystery—this time ignited by a letter that should never have existed. When the town’s centennial time capsule is opened, it reveals a prediction of death written years after the capsule was sealed. Days later, a former councilman is found dead—staged, symbolic, and chillingly precise.

As Elinor, Detective Warren Giles, and local historian Ruthie Knox begin to investigate, they uncover a web of buried testimonies, manipulated records, and a legacy of silence stretching back generations. The deeper they dig, the more disturbing the truth becomes: Peter Graves, the boy once believed to be a tragic casualty, was not the end of a story—but its beginning.

With the arrival of Lucien Morrall, a visiting historian with a suspicious interest in the town’s suppressed past, the lines between truth and performance begin to blur. As museum exhibits are vandalized, bodies reappear in places steeped in symbolism, and a forged manuscript threatens to reshape the town’s history, Elinor must decide where her loyalty lies—with the archives she protects or the truth they conceal.

What begins as an academic mystery becomes a haunting race against time, as Mercy Glen must finally confront the cost of what it tried so hard to forget.