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Cold Black River

Jay Bower and Megan Stockton

On a cold December afternoon, ten-year-old Tucker Smith enters the Christmas fair with his father.He never comes home.Parents Abbie and Dane are consumed by fear, guilt, and the growing suspicion that someone knows exactly where their son is. Their marriage begins to fracture beneath the strain, every day without their son driving them further apart.Then a note arrives. Tucker is alive, and if they pay the ransom they can have him back.Scrambling to secure the funds, they wage everything they have on one final chance to save their child… but the ransom is only the beginning, and the truth waiting for them may be more horrific than they can handle.

GenresLiterature & FictionGenre FictionHorrorSmall Town & RuralUnited States

326 pages

English edition · First published 2026 by Independently published · ISBN 9798194653775

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