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Paperback
Publisher: Amado
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The winning story was supposed to be fiction. Then its author was found dead in the creek.
Eli Vasquez came to Cascadia Falls for the nineteenth Pacific Northwest Fan Fic Invitational expecting manuscripts, panels, and small-town ritual. Instead, the contest's winning entrant, Piet Solberg, is discovered dead hours after his story is announced - and the submission server goes dark before anyone can read the full manuscript.
The story Piet left behind is strange, precise, and far too detailed to be ordinary fan fiction. Its fictional town mirrors Cascadia Falls. Its invented land deals match buried county records. Its carefully disguised characters point toward a decades-old property fraud that reshaped the town and ruined a family that never understood what had been taken from them.
With journalist Nora Fenn, Eli begins decoding the manuscript as if it were a map: every over-explained sentence, every altered name, every historical detail that looks like texture but behaves like evidence. The deeper they read, the clearer it becomes that Piet may have hidden the truth inside fiction because saying it plainly was too dangerous.
But in a town where everyone knows the story they prefer to tell about themselves, the truth has been revised for forty years.
If Piet's manuscript exposes what really happened in Cascadia Falls, who was desperate enough to make sure he never finished telling it?
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