Beneath the Perfect Town

Synopsis

Everyone in Briar Hollow says it’s the safest town in the state. Tree-lined streets. Friday night football. Smiling families who lock their doors but never their secrets. Seventeen-year-old Riley Carter used to believe that too—until the night she witnesses something she was never meant to see. A local boy is found dead behind the high school gym. The police rule it an accident. The town mourns. The case is closed. But Riley knows it wasn’t an accident. And she knows who was there. When subtle threats begin to follow her—anonymous texts, a locker vandalized, a warning slipped under her door—Riley realizes the truth is more dangerous than she imagined. The people protecting the lie aren’t criminals hiding in the shadows. They’re respected. They’re powerful. And they’re watching her. As the town tightens its grip and the story in the news twists further from reality, Riley must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose what really happened that night. Because in Briar Hollow, the truth doesn’t disappear. It gets buried. And Riley may be the only one brave enough to dig it up.