Dead Eyes in the Dark

Dead Eyes in the Dark - Book Description A haunting psychological horror thriller about justice, sacrifice, and the darkness that watches from the trees. Detective Sarah Chen arrives in the isolated mountain town of Hollow Ridge as punishment for a case gone wrong. What should be a quiet exile becomes a nightmare when she discovers a decades-long pattern of disappearances—young people vanishing into the forest, never to return. As Sarah investigates, she encounters the watchers: pale, inhuman figures with void-like eyes that hunt from the shadows. They are the cursed remnants of forty-seven asylum patients who were deliberately burned alive in 1952, their suffering so profound it transformed them into something beyond death. But the supernatural horror is only half the truth. Sarah uncovers a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of Hollow Ridge's leadership—town officials who have been orchestrating disappearances for seventy years, feeding victims to the watchers to maintain an illusion of safety. To stop the darkness, Sarah must expose a conspiracy that will destroy the town, free tormented souls from their curse, and confront an impossible choice: how many lives is justice worth? And when her investigation leads her to an even older evil in the forests of Millbrook, Sarah faces her ultimate decision—a sacrifice that will save thousands but cost her everything, trapping her as an eternal guardian watching over cursed ground with eyes that no longer hunger, but can never look away.