Temporal Tangle. Shadowbrook Chronicles, #2

Some secrets are meant to stay buried. Some prisoners were never meant to be found. When a violent storm cracks the beams of Shadowbrook Chapel, it does more than damage an old building - it begins to unravel time itself. Streets flicker between eras, neighbours loop endlessly, and the Nexus pulses toward catastrophe. Then guardian Mary Abraham receives a vision pointing toward the long-abandoned Hayes estate.
Inside that crumbling Victorian mansion, Tom - the stone key bearer - leads Luke, Sarah, Emma, and Billy through rotting halls haunted by impossible echoes of the past. What they uncover is a devastating truth hidden for nearly two centuries. Elizabeth Hayes didn't just build Shadowbrook - she built a prison beneath it. And the man she locked inside was her own husband, Marshall Hayes, still conscious, still screaming, frozen in a single terrible moment for nearly two hundred years.
Freeing Marshall means risking everything. But leaving him trapped means losing their humanity. As timelines collapse across Shadowbrook and the Temporal Intruder circles with dark promises, Tom, Luke, Sarah, Emma, and Billy must convince a broken man that fear doesn't have to define his legacy - before time runs out for all of them. Some wounds can only be healed by the very people who made them.