_Shadow in the Blackharbor Winds_
A staged animal attack in a wind-torn port town hides a deeper digital blackmail — and as the Serious Crimes Unit unearths old resentments and cyber-shadows, personal lines blur, leaving wounds no confession can heal.
*The Bell of Silvertop Rings at Dusk*
A beloved journalist plunges to her death from a Silverbarrow farmhouse window—what at first seems like a tragic burglary gone wrong quickly unspools into a labyrinth of ideology, occult whispers, and betrayal, drawing the Serious Crimes Unit into a community that reveres them and a case that will test their own loyalties.
Shoreline Shadows
When a Blackharbor teenager vanishes on the edge of a storm and poisoned clues point to ancient rites, the Serious Crimes Unit must brave wind-lashed docks, occult whispers, and political misdirection to uncover a truth the town would rather see sink beneath the waves.
*Inheritance of Shadows: A Verrowind SCU Case*
When a corporate whistleblower is found dead in an abandoned Hollowbrook building, the Verrowind Serious Crimes Unit must navigate red herrings, occult misdirection, and family secrets to unmask the truth—only to learn that justice sometimes slips from grasp.
Salt and Shadows: The Poisoned Protest
A protest ends in tragedy under the crumbling eaves of Saltmere’s abandoned saltworks. As the Serious Crimes Unit peels back layers of superstition, family secrets, and misdirection, every salty gust threatens to erase the truth—or the next clue.
_The Blackharbor Masquerade_
On a gale-lashed evening in Blackharbor, a beloved local celebrity is found dead in a locked cabin, torn apart by what appears to be a wild animal. But as the wind howls and the townspeople close ranks, the Verrowind Serious Crimes Unit must unravel a web of desperation, deception, and superstition — before the truth is lost to the sea.
*Ember and Ashes: An SCU Case in Ironvale*
A nurse’s mutilated body in a near-deserted Ironvale motel unleashes a claustrophobic hunt through empty streets, stubborn secrets, and smoldering family lies, as the Serious Crimes Unit must untangle hidden abuse and deeper corruption before the town’s old pride smothers the truth for good.
*Ashes in the Mist: A Thornhollow Arson*
When a journalist’s body is discovered in the smoldering ruins of the Lantern Vale Retirement Home, the Verrowind Serious Crimes Unit must wade through Thornhollow’s traditions, secrets, and simmering political tensions to unravel a murder hidden beneath an arson’s smoke—only to find that justice in Verrowind is as elusive as the morning mist.
Ash in the Wires
When the activist leader of a resurgent protest movement vanishes in fogbound Bridgemoor, the Serious Crimes Unit must sift through booby-trapped ruins, frightened witnesses, and haunted local memory—only to find that control can wear a thousand faces, and not all ghosts linger in the past.
Ashes in the Water: A Greyhaven Arson Case
A retired officer’s body, found drowned in a scorched office, thrusts the Serious Crimes Unit into the rotting core of Greyhaven’s inheritance feuds, broken trust, and urban unrest. As secrets surface and the city threatens to boil over, the detectives must decide what justice means in a place where truth no longer guarantees it.