Natural Causes

“Natural causes” is what they wrote, and it kept working. In a coastal town where everyone knows everyone, a journalist arrives to chase a pattern of deaths that look ordinary on paper and disappear from conversation in person.

Jim Holloway is hired to start with the first case, Evelyn Voss. But he is not alone for long. A group of child allies follows him into the places adults will not go, listening at the edges, testing every story, and pulling at threads that lead to a locked records room.

When the town’s agreement finally has a name, it is not just a secret. It is a price, and someone paid it in lives. Read now, before the next “ordinary” death makes the paperwork too clean.