Pine Mountain
The Past Isn't Buried. It's Waiting

Kate Ellis has spent her entire life on Pine Mountain.She knows the ridgeline, the mines, the shifting weather patterns, the quiet looks people give when certain names come up. She knows what it means to live in a place where tragedy is woven into the landscape.What she doesn’t know—what no one will talk about—is the truth behind her parents’ deaths.When strange warnings begin appearing and old records from Pine Mountain Mining surface in places they shouldn’t, Kate’s suspicion turns into something sharper. Someone has lied to her for decades. Someone close. Someone who knows exactly what happened the night everything changed.And the mountain around her feels different now—closer, darker, as if it’s waiting for her to finally see what’s been hidden in plain sight.As Kate pulls at the threads connecting her family to the mountain, the mine, and the town she thought she understood, danger begins to gather at the edges of her life. The truth has been here all along. So has the person willing to kill to keep it buried.And this time, Pine Mountain isn’t staying silent.