We Are All Trapped Here: A Small Town Psychological Thriller

By Pearl E. Jenkins

A small town. A dead girl. Secrets that refuse to stay buried.

In Millbrook Hollow, everybody knows everybody. That's the problem.
When seventeen-year-old Sarah Hendricks is found dead at the town's annual Harvest Festival, Detective Lena Carver thinks she's investigating a tragic murder. She's wrong. She's uncovering a conspiracy that's been killing girls for twenty years.

The bridge is out. The town is trapped. And someone is making sure the secrets stay buried-one body at a time.

Lena returned to her hometown three years ago to prove she wasn't the liar they'd called her at seventeen. Now she's the only detective standing between justice and a coverup that reaches into every corner of this seemingly perfect community. The victim's phone reveals a disturbing investigation into local corruption. Her missing laptop could expose everyone. And the deeper Lena digs, the more she realizes Sarah's murder is connected to another girl's death-one that haunted Lena out of town two decades ago.

Katie Whitmore. Dead at sixteen. Ruled a suicide. Lena never believed it.

Now, with three hundred witnesses trapped by flooding and a killer operating in plain sight, Lena has 72 hours to solve two murders, expose a decades-long conspiracy, and confront the ghosts that have been chasing her since she was seventeen years old.

But in Millbrook Hollow, the deadliest secrets are the ones everyone already knows.

And the people who tell the truth don't survive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2RSZ6L8
• ISBN13: 9798274884419
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"