Beyond Mercy Falls

Runner-up Best Book To Screen at the White Rose International Film Festival 2026. and Block 3 Winner. For decades, Indigenous women disappeared across Alaska - quietly, routinely, and with little consequence. Temperance Hale's life as she knows it, ends the day the FBI come for her father. A respected bush pilot, admired and trusted, he is suddenly linked to a series of cold cases stretching back decades.
By nightfall, everything Temperance thought she knew about her family, her name, and her past has collapsed. Her father's legacy isn't one of flight - it is one of shadows. As Special Agent Scott Hansen works through the brutal aftermath - identifying remains, returning names, standing before families who were never believed - Temperance is forced to reckon with what it means to survive a man who destroyed lives she will never fully know.
This is not a hunt for a killer. It is a confrontation with the systems that allowed violence to persist, unnoticed and unanswered. Unflinching and deeply human, Beyond Mercy Falls: The Cost of Silence is a story about aftermath - about memory, inheritance, and what remains when the world decides it has moved on. Inspired by the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people, and by the families still waiting for answers.