Nine Years

By Sarah Inglis

Some towns bury their secrets.

Kilbourne feeds on them.

Kilbourne is the kind of town people leave - and never fully escape from.

For more than a century, it has watched the Blackwood family unravel through violence, madness, strange disappearances, and death.

Nine years after his younger brother vanished, Nathan Blackwood returns to the town he swore he would never see again. He comes back to the ruins of Blackwood House, to a lake that never gives up its dead and to memories Kilbourne has kept carefully buried.

As Nathan searches for Eli, the past begins to bleed into the present. Old stories resurface. Familiar faces turn strange. And the town reveals a hunger it has never outgrown.

Eli Blackwood was the ninth son in a line of broken men. Whatever took him has been waiting a long time.

In Kilbourne, nothing stays buried forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1764482182
• ISBN13: 9781764482189
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Pale Moon Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"