EVERGREEN

Some houses remember. Some houses refuse to let go.

When fallen true-crime podcaster Nova Turner returns to Wolfe County after a career-ending scandal, she wants only one thing-silence. But on a deserted winter road, she finds a Victorian house glowing softly through the fog. A house that shouldn't be lit. A house that hasn't been lived in for years.

Inside, each room holds an ornament etched with the name of someone who died within its walls. Each December, the house lights itself and waits for the next name to appear.

This year, the new ornament is hers.

As Nova is pulled into the house's cold orbit, she begins hearing whispers in the walls-pleas from a girl who vanished long before Nova ever moved away. The deeper she goes, the more she realizes the house doesn't want to haunt her.

It wants to claim her.

And Evergreen Lane never makes a mistake.

A quiet, atmospheric gothic novella about memory, guilt, and the places that wait for us long after we've forgotten them.