Beneath the Unseen Sky

Previously

…He thanked Ms. Miller again and left the house, the scent of stale disinfectant and unspoken fear clinging to him. The afternoon sun felt unusually harsh, the familiar streets of the town suddenly imbued with a sinister undertone. Mary Miller wasn’t just a missing girl. She was a girl who had stumbled into something dark, something that had clearly terrified her mother into silence. And the key to finding her, Harding suspected, lay not just in her disappearance, but in the dangerous truth she had been so determined to uncover. The mother’s silence had been broken, but the silence of the town, and of Mary herself, remained a deafening mystery.