The Promise

When her best friend Mark vanishes after texting Coming over. Tonight. Something important., the police find his abandoned car at Miller’s Quarry. Blood on the passenger seat. No body. No witnesses.

And Mara—no alibi.

Detective Miller wants a confession. Mark’s sister wants closure. The town’s old money wants the past to stay buried.

But Mara doesn’t break promises. She searches.

What she finds in the quarry’s frozen dark isn’t a body. It’s a ledger of forty years of corruption. A basement archive that shouldn’t exist. A gun that belongs to her. And a video file that proves everything she remembers—her childhood, her mother’s death, fifteen years of friendship with Mark—might belong to someone else entirely.

Because the girl hunting her best friend’s killer is starting to wonder: What if I’m the weapon that killed him?