Redacted

Author : Skye Arden
Published : February 7, 2026
Print length : 310 pages

Blurb:
Some towns don’t solve disappearances. They erase them.
Investigative journalist Harper Ellison returns home with two days missing—and a bruise on her wrist she can’t explain. She has a sick certainty that someone has been inside her head. Her mother vanished years ago, and the town kept its secrets. She demands the records. They arrive black-barred: names blocked out, dates stripped, whole pages gone. Not lost—removed. The paperwork matches her mind—clean gaps where the truth should be.
Her mother’s secret notes whisper about payoffs, a framed “monster,” and a presence that moves through the streets like it has a key to every door.
Detective McCallum warns they’re building a new file. This one labels Harper as a threat: unstable, dangerous, and full of gaps.
But the missing pieces come back in flashes—cold metal, a slammed door, river mud… and a silver locket that isn’t hers.
Someone is editing the truth… and the next edit is Harper.
One wrong step, and she becomes a blank line in a blacked-out file.