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Pine Mountain: The past isn't buried. It's waiting.
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Bent Nail Books
Published: Dec 31 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kate Ellis has spent her entire life on Pine Mountain.
She knows every winding back road that disappears into the trees, every abandoned mine entrance hidden beneath decades of brush, and every weathered face in town. She knows the stories passed down through generations, the whispered warnings, and the uneasy silences that settle over conversations when certain names are mentioned. On Pine Mountain, people learn early which questions not to ask.
For thirty years, Kate has lived with the official explanation for her parents' deaths. It was tragic. Unfortunate. Something best left in the past. Yet beneath the accepted story, doubts have lingered. Small inconsistencies. Unanswered questions. The feeling that something important was deliberately left unsaid.
When mysterious warnings begin appearing at her home and long-buried records from Pine Mountain Mining surface where they should never have been found, those doubts become impossible to ignore. Someone wants her attention. Someone wants her to stop digging. And someone has been hiding the truth for decades.
As Kate begins unraveling the secrets surrounding her family, she discovers that her parents' deaths may be connected to a much larger story buried deep within the mountain itself. Old loyalties, hidden crimes, and dangerous alliances stretch back generations, reaching into the heart of the community she thought she knew. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes that the people she trusts most may know far more than they have ever admitted.
But Pine Mountain has a long memory.
The mountain watches from every horizon, holding its secrets beneath layers of stone, darkness, and time. What was buried years ago was never truly gone. It has been waiting. And now, as the truth begins to surface, Kate finds herself caught in a deadly game where every answer brings new danger.
Someone is determined to keep the past buried.
Someone who has already killed to protect the truth.
As the walls close in and the line between friend and enemy begins to blur, Kate must decide how much she is willing to risk to uncover what really happened the night her parents died. Because the secrets hidden inside Pine Mountain are more dangerous than she ever imagined.
And this time, the mountain isn't staying silent.
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