You swore you would never come back to Hollow Creek. Not after the rumors. Not after the night you left with your heart in pieces. Not after everything the town let happen. But when your mother dies suddenly, you return home with one plan: clean out the old house, sell it, and leave before the past can sink its claws into you again. Instead, the house gives you one last thing your mother left behind. A hidden journal. Its first page contains a warning that changes everything. Now the sheriff who never stopped watching over you wants the journal before you can read it. The town’s most dangerous outlaw somehow already knows you’ve found it. And as old secrets begin crawling out from beneath Hollow Creek’s floorboards, you realize your mother may not have simply died. She may have been silenced. Beau wants you safe. Knox wants you awake. One man is the law. The other has spent his life running from it. Somewhere between the sheriff’s protection and the outlaw’s warning lies the truth Hollow Creek buried alive.