Thread of Guilt
A Small Town, A Missing Child, A Needle in the Dark
By Prasanth N.M.
In the quiet town of Chestnut Hill, children have vanished without a trace, years apart, names forgotten, their disappearances dismissed as tragic accidents or runaways. But when seven-year-old Noah Whitlock disappears on a rain-drenched evening, one woman begins to see the thread tying it all together.
Clara Hayes, a grieving former teacher with secrets of her own, stumbles onto an unsettling pattern in the cases, details buried deep in dusty archives and half-whispered town gossip. As she digs deeper, she's pulled into a web of silence, stitched together by old fears, closed doors, and a community desperate to protect its illusions.
The truth is not only hidden. It's protected.
As Clara unravels the thread, she uncovers something far more terrifying than she expected, a darkness that has lived beneath the town's surface for decades, stitched into its very fabric. And someone is willing to kill to keep it from unraveling.
In a town where memory is selective and guilt is generational, how far would you go to expose a lie everyone has agreed to forget?
A haunting psychological thriller based loosely on real small-town disappearances, Thread of Guilt is a story of buried truths, maternal resolve, and the invisible threads that bind and break us.
