They Never Left: a Novel of Small-town Secrets, Rituals, and the Darkness Beneath

They Never LeftWhen disgraced journalist Rex Mallory returns to the small town of Whisper Ridge, he expects rust, rumors, and a few ghosts from his past. What he doesn’t expect is a missing woman, a mutilated corpse, and the burned remains of a notebook that points to decades of disappearances.As Mallory digs deeper, he uncovers chilling whispers of an abandoned asylum, a preacher with too many secrets, and a sheriff who doesn’t take kindly to questions. Every lead pulls him closer to a horrifying truth buried beneath the town’s sleepy surface—one the townspeople are willing to kill to protect.They Never Left is a gritty, atmospheric thriller about buried sins, backwoods conspiracies, and the price of chasing the truth in a town that’s forgotten how to tell it.