Evan Hawthorne

Hannah Pierce arrives in Copper Hill to investigate a routine safety anomaly. What she finds instead is a fracture - one that runs far deeper than faulty data. Thirty-five years ago, fourteen miners vanished in a sealed section of the mountain. Officially, they were transferred. Unofficially, they were erased. As Hannah digs deeper, she uncovers a hidden chamber, falsified records, and a pact between powerful men who chose silence over truth.
The deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes: the mountain never forgot - and now it's starting to move. With the mine's structure failing and the truth threatening to surface, Hannah must race against time to expose what happened before history collapses in on itself - and takes the town with it. The Copper Hill Pact is a tense, slow-burn conspiracy thriller about buried decisions, institutional silence, and the cost of keeping the past hidden.