Hale County

<p>Hale County.</p><p>A place where the past isn't buried-it's waiting.</p><p></p><p>When a series of violent crimes and unexplained vanishings unsettle a small Tennessee town Sheriff Jake Hooks begins to suspect something far more sinister than ordinary evil. The trail leads to the mysterious Hale County Asylum a decaying monument to long-forgotten patients and secrets that were never meant to surface.</p><p></p><p>As the town slips into chaos unlikely allies emerge: a grieving journalist obsessed with the truth a brilliant doctor hiding more than research and a young man drawn to the asylum by visions he can't explain. Together they're pulled into a mystery as old as the land itself-one that bends reality twists memory and demands sacrifice.</p><p></p><p>Beneath the dark foundation of the asylum lies something that has waited a long time to be seen. And once the door is opened it doesn't close quietly.</p><p></p><p>HALE COUNTY is a slow-burn Southern Gothic thriller drenched in folklore dread and psychological unraveling. A haunting meditation on trauma obsession and the weight of forgotten sins this debut novel pulls you deep into the shadows-where truth and madness blur and not everyone comes out the same.</p>