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The Last Winter: A Small-Town Thriller
Paperback
Series: Hollister Fork, Book 10
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some towns don't keep secrets. They keep silences. And every silence, in the end, comes up out of the ground.
The snow comes early to Hollister Fork, and it comes to stay - the deepest winter in memory, sealing the town one last time. The machine is broken. The money is seized. The man who ran this valley for fifty years is dying alone on his ruined ridge. Sheriff Cassidy Mara has won the long war, by every measure that can be counted.
Except one. There is a single name left in the drawer. The oldest. The thinnest file. A name that predates everything - and when Cassidy pulls it, the story she has believed about this town for a decade begins to come apart.
Because the last secret was never the rich man's. It was older than his money, older than his machine, older than the war itself. And the dying man's final warning sends her digging in the one place she has never thought to look - the ground beneath her own chair, the office she was so proud to hold, the badge on her own coat.
What she finds there will cost her everything she thought she was. And it will force the hardest choice of her life: bury the last grave to protect the only law the town has left, or dig it up and tell a truth that indicts the badge itself - knowing that burying it is exactly the choice that started all of it, thirty years ago.
The killing winter has sealed the town for the reckoning. The old generation is dying in the cold. And before the thaw comes, Cassidy Mara will empty the drawer at last - whatever it takes from her.
The Hollister Fork Files began with a first snow. It ends with the last winter.
A complete, standalone mystery - and the conclusion of the acclaimed ten-book series.
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