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Some graves are meant to stay hidden.

Three years after surviving Ashburn Street, twenty-two-year-old Cass Wilder is ready to prove she can lead an investigation without her mother watching over her.

Her first solo case takes her to a colonial home in Portsmouth, where a family reports violent disturbances after construction workers uncover human bones behind the house.

At first, the activity seems familiar. Footsteps in empty rooms. Doors slamming without warning. Objects hurled by unseen hands.

Then the red maple begins to bleed.

As Cass digs into the property’s history, she uncovers the story of John Campbell, a landowner who promised desperate Irish immigrants work and shelter in the 1840s, then made certain they could never leave.

The dead beneath the tree are not haunting the house.

They are trapped there.

Something born from Campbell’s cruelty has fed on their suffering for nearly two centuries, and now that the bones have been disturbed, it is reaching beyond the property.

Cass came to prove she could handle a case alone. But the deeper she follows the buried trail, the more the entity turns the investigation against her, threatening the family, the people she loves, and the fragile confidence she has spent three years rebuilding.

To free the dead, Cass must confront the man who condemned them—and sever the evil still rooted in his bones.