When Detective Isla Merrin is sent to the fog-shrouded coastal town of Bellgrave, she expects a simple case: a child's body discovered beneath the town's crumbling bone church. But what she finds is far from simple — a mute boy with eyes black as pitch, found alive in a crypt that's been sealed since 1875... and a town that has been waiting for him to return.

As mutilated bodies begin to appear in impossible places, and whispers rise from the tunnels beneath the earth, Isla is drawn into a nightmare woven through centuries of ritual, silence, and sacrifice. The deeper she digs, the more the truth unravels — about Bellgrave, about the boy who doesn't age, and about herself.

Because some places don't just keep secrets.
They feed on them.

And Bellgrave is starving.