Edith's Mercy

Detectives Luca Marchetti and Ken Walsh have faced darkness before.

After barely surviving the nightmare of the Hag case, the two detectives are still carrying the scars—physical, emotional, and spiritual—of an encounter that should have killed them. They are back on duty, but neither man is the same. Luca’s faith has been shaken. Ken’s humor hides wounds that have not healed. And both of them know some horrors do not end just because the case file closes.

When a severed human foot is discovered in the woods outside the forgotten township of Bennane, the investigation should be simple: identify the victim, find the body, and follow the evidence. But the deeper Luca and Ken dig, the stranger the case becomes.

A lonely road marked with a warning.

A diner where no one eats.

A town that seems trapped outside of time.

And something moving through the trees that looks human only from a distance.

As forensic clues point toward impossible answers, a young drifter named Catie Markwell stumbles into the center of a nightmare already waiting for her. What begins as a missing-persons investigation twists into something far older and hungrier than murder.

In Bennane, the dead do not rest.

And the living may already belong to something else.