SHERIFF DALTON’S POV
The pressure is unbearable. The town is in chaos, and I’m at the center of it. Mayor Elise is dead, and Casper is unraveling at the seams. People are calling me incompetent, saying I’m not doing my job. I have to get to the bottom of this.
I stand in my office, staring at the board, the photos and notes pinned up like a twisted puzzle waiting to be solved. My gaze lands on a picture of Landon. His words echo in my mind—the secret room in Elise’s house.
I don’t trust Landon. Never have. But he saw something in that house, and I can’t ignore it. Maybe that room holds the key to all of this.
A knock at the door pulls me from my thoughts. Before I can respond, Jemma steps in. My daughter. She’s everything to me, my right light in all this darkness.
She smiles as she w
