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- Title
- Shimmer
- Author
- Lambert, David A
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798248060931
Kyle and Macy Connors disappeared on a bright summer morning, walking into the forest behind their home in Laurel Gap, TN The search lasted two weeks. Bloodhounds lost the scent. Volunteers found nothing. The woods gave back only silence. Seventy-two days later, the children walked out on their own.
They were filthy. Clothes torn to rags, skin covered in scratches and bruises, dirt ground so deep it seemed part of them. But no real injuries. Nothing broken, nothing infected, nothing to explain how two kids survived over two months in the wilderness. The doctors ran every test. Physically, they were fine. Miraculous, they said. A blessing. But blessings don't stare through their own parents with empty eyes.
Kyle and Macy sit at the kitchen table like hollow puppets. They answer questions in flat, emotionless voices. They claim no memory of the missing months. They move through their home as strangers, responding without recognition, eating without hunger, existing without the spark that makes a child human. Their dog won't go near them. Their mother's relief curdles into something she can't name.
Sheriff Ty Sherrod knows the wrongness runs deeper than trauma. He's seen grief. He's seen shock. This is something else. Then the bodies start appearing. Drained in ways that turn his stomach. Twisted into positions that break the laws of anatomy. Left in a condition no man or animal could cause. And each time, there's no evidence. No tracks. No explanation. Just death wearing a question mark. The town fractures between relief and horror. The children watch it all with those same blank stares. And in the woods behind the Connors' house, something ancient stirs, finally given eyes to see our world.
In Laurel Gap, Tennessee, the woods hide secrets, and the lost don't come home unchanged.
From David A Lambert, author of Hushbone, Rangatang, and Black Lung, comes a chilling Southern Gothic nightmare where the price of survival is paid in blood, and some pacts are better left unmade
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