Hale County

<p></p><p><strong>Hale County.</strong></p><p> <strong>A place where the past isn't buried-it's waiting.</strong></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 derelict Hale County Asylum a decaying monument to long-forgotten patients and secrets that were never meant to surface.</p><p>As the town slips into chaos unlikely allies emerge: a grieving professor obsessed with local folklore a conspiracy podcaster broadcasting warnings from the hills a brilliant doctor hiding more than research and a young woman drawn to the asylum by visions she 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>Beneath the crumbling 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><strong>HALE COUNTY</strong> 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>