A forgotten crypt. A whispering bell. A village that remembers what it should have buried.
When renovation work at St. Mildred's Church uncovers a sealed crypt beneath the nave, Arabella Grey, Wethersby's sharp-witted amateur sleuth, is drawn into a mystery older than the village itself. The bones inside are arranged in a chilling tableau: three kneeling figures, chained in penance, and a fourth skull, branded with a long-erased family crest.
But when a villager is found murdered, his body posed to match the dead beneath the church, the past begins to stir.
Soon, eerie bell tolls echo through the night. Children draw visions of the dead. And someone calling themselves The Witness begins leaving strange tokens around the village-reminders of a ritual once meant to erase a name from history.
Arabella must navigate a trail of secret societies, rewritten parish ledgers, and buried guilt to uncover the truth. Because this time, the past isn't content to be uncovered.
It wants to finish what it started.