The Whispering Children of Silent Creek

Some secrets stay buried. Others refuse to stay silent.Grief-stricken mother Mara Thorne thought her daughter’s drowning was a tragic accident. But when eight-year-old Lily’s ghost appears in her bedroom, dripping creek water and whispering impossible truths, Mara’s world shatters again.”They’re still here, Mama. Under the water. All of them. And they’re so angry.”Digging into Millbrook’s past, Mara uncovers evidence of children disappearing near Silent Creek for over 170 years—deaths dismissed as accidents, records destroyed, families silenced. The town’s founding families made a pact with an ancient entity, offering children’s lives in exchange for prosperity and protection. And the ritual never stopped.Now the ghost children are rising. They manifest in homes, schools, and streets—translucent figures with hollow eyes and voices like static, demanding to be remembered, demanding justice. As the haunting escalates into full-blown terror, Mara joins forces with other grieving parents to confront both the living conspirators and the supernatural forces they unleashed.But some of the trapped spirits have been corrupted by years of binding and rage. As Millbrook descends into madness, Mara must choose: expose the truth and risk unleashing something even darker, or stay silent and let her daughter’s death remain another “accident.”A chilling folk horror novel about the price of silence, the power of memory, and the voices that refuse to be forgotten.