Murder in the Moonlit Maze

Eli Mercer knows every inch of Mercer Hollow-the paths, the fences, the people who smile too quickly and the ones who never quite look you in the eye. So when Tansy Reed disappears, he notices the small things first: a hidden note, a broken platform, a survey ribbon snagged where it shouldn't be. The clues lead past festival lights and hayrides into a deeper tangle of route changes, parcel maps, and a land deal nobody wants named.
The more Eli follows the paper trail, the more he sees a pattern of careful revisions-on clipboards, in schedules, in people's stories. By the time he realizes Tansy was meeting someone in secret, the farm is already split by suspicion. And if Eli can't find who was moving through the south spur before dawn, Mercer Hollow may not just lose its seasons. It may lose everyone still standing in them.