A man is found dead in a crumbling Welsh asylum.
His mouth is sewn shut.
On the chapel wall behind him, a message in charcoal reads:

"I told the truth. Now I can't speak."

When Detective Inspector Alastair Finch arrives at Brecon Hall, he expects silence, not a ritual. The remote estate, once a religious refuge and now a private care home, hides more than forgotten patients. Its foundations are built on secrecy. And the echoes of one girl who was never allowed to speak.

As Finch unravels the threads of the death, he discovers others like it — past and present — bound by a cryptic symbol and a growing network of voices that should not know each other. Five children, scattered across the country, all dreaming the same symbols. All remembering the same buried name.

And when they finally speak together, the silence will break — and something far older than memory will rise.

A psychological gothic mystery for readers who love:

Some truths are too big to forget. And some voices never stay buried.