Title: Ghosts on Paper
Series: Ashwood County
New Chapter Posted: September 5, 2025
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Some ghosts don’t knock—they just sit with you.

In this chapter, Sheriff Cal Danner tries to hold on to the last threads of normal—dinner with his daughter, quiet coffee with his wife—while the case begins to claw at his door. The mystery deepens through the casefiles, but the real story is what it’s doing to the people trying to carry it.

There’s weight on every page. Some of it belongs to the dead. Some of it, we carry ourselves.

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