The Witch Hunter's Lantern (The Witch Hunter Chronicles)

A dying lantern. A stolen name. A town built on forgetting. When Witch Hunter Elijah Lynton rides into the remote hamlet of Morva Hollow, he expects nothing more than a night’s rest. Instead, he finds an ancient Lantern that refuses to burn. The villagers claim the Lantern once protected them—that so long as it burned, something was kept at bay. Now it has gone cold, a child has vanished, and her name is slipping from memory. As Elijah investigates, he uncovers a generations-old bargain and a terror that feeds on absence itself. And in Morva Hollow, death is not the worst fate. Being forgotten is.