Little Mercy: Every Twenty Years, Mercy Hallow Takes Its Due

Every town has its secrets. Mercy Hallow has more than most.Journalist Margo Vance thought she’d escaped her hometown for good—until her father’s illness forces her back. But the Mercy Hallow she remembers is not the one she returns to. The fog is heavier. The neighbors whisper more quietly. And the old Halloway House, the one no one dares approach, has its lights on again.In the attic, Margo discovers a box marked Mercy: brittle clippings, a braid tied with blue thread, and a Polaroid of a girl who vanished the night the town lost its first child. The deeper she digs, the clearer the truth becomes—Mercy Hallow runs on an unspoken bargain. Every twenty years, something is taken. And now the cycle has come again.As Margo unravels the mystery, she must decide: expose the town’s dark covenant and risk becoming its next offering, or keep silent like generations before her. But Mercy Hallow does not forgive, and it never lets go.Fans of atmospheric thrillers, supernatural suspense, and small-town horror will be gripped by Little Mercy—a chilling tale of inherited bargains, vanishing children, and the house that remembers.