The Town Caged Devil
In the town of Black Hollow, Lucien Vale is feared like a curse people whisper about after dark. Ten years ago, a brutal night of bloodshed destroyed one of the....
In the town of Black Hollow, Lucien Vale is feared like a curse people whisper about after dark. Ten years ago, a brutal night of bloodshed destroyed one of the town’s most powerful families, and Lucien was blamed for it all. The courts labeled him dangerous. The media called him a monster. Ever since, the entire town has treated him less like a man and more like something that should have never been allowed to exist. Now living under strict psychiatric supervision, Lucien survives on the edge of society, isolated, watched, and hated by the same people who built their peace around his guilt. Everything changes when Evelyn Carter arrives. Assigned to evaluate Lucien’s mental stability, Evelyn expects violence, manipulation, and rage. Instead, she finds a deeply damaged man who has spent years trapped beneath the weight of a label the world forced onto him. As she begins uncovering inconsistencies buried inside the infamous case, Evelyn realizes the truth behind Black Hollow’s “monster” may be far more dangerous than anyone imagined. Because if Lucien Vale is innocent, then someone powerful created the devil the town fears. And they will do anything to keep the truth buried.