The Whisper Beneath Ashwood Creek. The Hollow Veil Chronicles, #1

Investigative journalist Claire Holland returns to Ashwood Creek to care for her ailing father-only to be drawn into the search for a missing child whose disappearance echoes her best friend's vanishing years earlier. As a blood-red moon rises and whispers creep through floorboards, Claire uncovers an insular town's buried trauma and the legend of the Hollow Veil, a thinning between worlds beneath the creek.
With the help of a skeptical detective and a small band of allies, she faces mass hysteria, a charismatic preacher's cult, and an ancient ritual that might bring the missing back-or unleash something far worse. Rich with folklore and psychological tension, The Whisper Beneath Ashwood Creek is a supernatural thriller about guilt, community, and the thin line A missing child, a blood-red moon, and a haunted creek force a journalist home to confront a cult and a deadly ritual in this gripping supernatural thriller.between grief and terror.