Dark Place, Where Grief and Heroism Meet

Violette Smythe thought grief would be the hardest thing she ever faced. After her husband's death, she finds small clues, including a metal coil toy, that refuse to let her rest. Her tender attempt to preserve memory spirals into something far more dangerous when the Slinky evokes visions of jungle warfare and a massacre that left David the lone survivor.

As Vi follows the breadcrumbed trail from attic trunks to dusty military files, her gentle coastal town reveals a darker architecture: ve...