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Four childhood friends return to their small American town, bound by a graveyard pact they once broke. What began as a dare awakens something buried in the orchard’s soil, an entity tied to the disappearance of local teenagers in 1956. Claire, Ethan, Danielle, and Marcus uncover symbols carved into stone, bones hidden beneath trees, and the town’s long silence that concealed the truth. As the orchard’s curse marks Marcus, they realize it demands a keeper. His sacrifice halts the cycle, leaving the survivors to carry the weight of exposing a community complicit in decades of fear. Blending personal terror, historical anchors, and moral reckoning, the book explores how broken promises and buried secrets can shape generations.
