Murder by the Orchard

The Harvest Festival was meant to celebrate tradition. Instead, it starts with a corpse.When Clara Hunt, a true-crime podcaster, returns to Willow Creek, she’s met with more than cider and hayrides. Her estranged father is found dead in a barn—and an unplugged radio crackles to life with a chilling message:“The past never stays buried.”Partnered with her childhood rival, Detective Josh Carter, Clara digs into a decades-old secret known as the Harvest Pact, a shadowy agreement binding their families to something far darker than anyone will admit.A hidden journal.A whispering orchard.A town desperate to keep its sins buried.As strange warnings surface and watchful eyes close in, Clara realizes someone is pulling strings—and they’ll kill to protect the truth.In Willow Creek, secrets don’t die.They wait. And this harvest is about to turn deadly.