by zyroxx
THE SECRETS OF WEXFORD England, 1993. Detective Ethan Paine is a man built on cold logic and hard truths. After years of drowning in the mundane grit of London’s minor crimes, his brilliance has begun to rust. Alongside his loyal but eccentric assistant, John, Paine finds himself drifting through an existence as gray as the English rain—until a whispered conversation in a corner café changes everything. The town is Wexford. The crime is unthinkable. A boy has vanished into thin air, and a woman’s body lies by the lake, mutilated with surgical precision. The heart is missing. While John is haunted by silver-screen fantasies of shapeshifters and ancient evils, Paine remains steadfast: there is always a man behind the monster. But as they arrive in the silent, fog-shrouded streets of Wexford, they find a town that has spent decades perfecting the art of the cover-up. The archives are purged, the locals are terrified, and the police are looking the other way. Just as the trail threatens to go cold, Paine and John encounter an unexpected ally—a mysterious figure with a shadowed past who holds the key to Wexford’s bloody history. With this stranger’s help, Paine must confront a terrifying possibility: that some secrets aren't just buried; they are alive. In a race against time and a rising tide of shadows, Paine will have to decide what is more dangerous—the truth he is hunting, or the darkness he refused to believe in. Some hearts don't stop beating. They just find a new place to hide
