The Crabtree Mirror

In the rainswept town of Thornhaven, the reading of the Crabtree will unearths a fifty-year-old death ruled as suicide—but the dead man’s granddaughter, a reclusive archivist, finds coded entries in his diary that point to ritual killings within the family. As she and a disgraced forensic psychologist dig deeper, they discover that every generation of Crabtrees has produced one “shadow twin”—a child raised in secret to absorb the family’s curses. But the curse is not supernatural; it is a system of gaslighting and enforced forgetting, and the current heir must decide whether to break the cycle or become its next victim. The labyrinth is not in the woods—it is in the stories they tell themselves to survive.