Winter's Debt

"Every winter, my hometown pays its debt in blood — and calls it tradition." Ivy Thorne comes home to bury her grandmother and finds Ashbourne Hollow bracing for the Longest Night — the one evening a year when someone disappears, and nobody asks why. When a stranger walks into an old well in front of two hundred silent witnesses, Ivy starts digging, and uncovers her grandmother's hidden ledger, a two-hundred-year-old pact with something that sleeps beneath the mountain, and a council of elders who decide exactly who doesn't get to come home. Her own family name has never been on that list. This year, that might not be enough to save her. How far would you go to stop a town from feeding its secrets to the dark?"Every winter, my hometown pays its debt in blood — and calls it tradition." Ivy Thorne comes home to bury her grandmother and finds Ashbourne Hollow bracing for the Longest Night — the one evening a year when someone disappears, and nobody asks why. When a stranger walks into an old well in front of two hundred silent witnesses, Ivy starts digging, and uncovers her grandmother's hidden ledger, a two-hundred-year-old pact with something that sleeps beneath the mountain, and a council of elders who decide exactly who doesn't get to come home. Her own family name has never been on that list. This year, that might not be enough to save her. How far would you go to stop a town from feeding its secrets to the dark?

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