It begins with a librarian. Not the kind you imagine—shushing and stamping—but a digital archivist named Mira Cole, hired by Pineridge Historical Society to digitize their rotting basement of records. The town wants a pretty online museum: photos of covered bridges, letters from the Civil War, maybe a recipe for pickled beets.

Mira screams. No one hears.

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