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The aftermath of last night still clings to the walls of Derek Brown’s home. What he witnessed – and what he survived – has left his world split in two. The person who raised him is no longer the person standing in front of him, and whatever she has become is something Bayou Mounds is not ready to face.
But survival is not enough. Derek needs answers.
Sheryl’s strange behavior, the late-night disappearances, the bursts of inhuman strength, the rage that feels less like anger and more like instinct – all of it finally forces him to seek help from the one person in Bayou Mounds willing to listen. Detective Olivia Hale has been piecing together her own quiet suspicions, and Derek’s story matches threads she has encountered before. Threads that vanish from case files. Threads nobody is supposed to pull.
When Derek shows her what he discovered in Sheryl’s room – the maps, the names, the unusual contacts – Hale uncovers a connection that no ordinary citizen should ever stumble across. A name that echoes deep inside old government archives. A name tied to a classified program with a reputation that was never meant to see daylight.
That revelation leads them far beyond city limits, down a back road where the truth waits in hiding. What Derek learns there will force him to rethink everything he believed about the explosion and everything he thought he knew about his family.
Something ancient has awakened in Bayou Mounds.
Something organized.
Something growing.
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