About this book:

**The truth is buried in Black Hollow—and someone will kill to keep it there.**

Cryptographer Elena Voss arrives in a fog-shrouded mountain town chasing a century-old cipher her grandfather died trying to decode. But the locals already know her name. The innkeeper speaks like he’s been expecting her. The librarian warns her that some secrets are best left dead. And in the whispering pines surrounding the town, symbols carved into trees mark a path to something the town council would rather stay hidden—a conspiracy written in blood, a mine that was never really sealed, and a warning that keeps appearing on her laptop: *Turn back while you still can.*

Part puzzle-box thriller, part gothic mystery, *The Cipher in Black Hollow* plunges you into a world where the trees remember, the fog hides watchers, and the dead leave messages in code. Elena must unravel her grandfather’s final obsession before the town’s dark history becomes her own—because in Black Hollow, digging up the past can get you buried alive.