Sullivan’s Crossing had finally found its rhythm again. After years of estrangement, Maggie Sullivan had reconciled with her father Sully and embraced the slow, healing pace of life in the remote mountain town. But when a flash flood unearthed a decades-old skeleton near the riverbank, the peaceful calm was shattered. The remains were quickly tied to a missing-persons case from 1985, and whispers stirred throughout the community. Sully was one of the last people seen with the victim, and despite his protests of innocence, suspicion began to stain his once-rebuilt reputation.
Determined to clear her father’s name, Maggie began her own quiet investigation. Her efforts brought her into contact with Dr. Lucas Keane, a forensic specialist sent to Sullivan’s Crossing to handle the case. While Maggie initially saw Lucas as an outsider, their connection grew as they worked side by side. Yet the deeper they dug into the past, the more tangled the truth became. Secrets long buried beneath the town’s surface started to rise — infidelities, betrayals, and a history no one wanted to revisit.
At the same time, tragedy struck again when a local teenage girl went missing in the nearby woods. The town was thrown into panic, and Maggie feared the past might be repeating itself. As search efforts expanded, Maggie and Lucas discovered a hidden network of trails leading to an old, abandoned cabin deep in the forest. There, they found evidence of rituals and journals suggesting that the two disappearances, though decades apart, were part of a darker pattern the town had long ignored.
In the final days of the investigation, Maggie uncovered a journal left behind by her late mother. Inside, she found confessions that shattered everything she thought she knew — her mother had helped cover up the original crime to protect someone she loved. As Maggie wrestled with this truth, she stood at a crossroads: reveal the secrets and risk destroying the fragile trust Sullivan’s Crossing had rebuilt, or let the past rest to preserve the peace. In the end, she chose the truth, knowing that real healing only comes when we stop running from the shadows of our past.
