The Distance of Seabrook - Eric Brown

Dry Hill isn't Seabrook.

There's no ocean here. No fog to soften the edges. Just open land, long shadows, and silence that stretches farther than it should.

Jonah Harris thought distance would make things simpler. A fresh start. A new badge. A town where nothing ever really happens.

He was wrong.

When an entire family vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a house that looks as if they simply stepped out for a moment, Jonah finds himself pulled into something that doesn't follow the rules he's learned. No signs of forced entry. No struggle. Just a trail that leads out of the backyard... and into the hills.

What begins as a routine call quickly unravels into something far more deliberate.

A missing camera.

A truck no one can identify.

A path that suggests the family didn't run... they followed.

And the deeper Jonah goes, the more he begins to realize something unsettling:

This wasn't random.

Someone was waiting for them.

And whatever started in those hills... isn't finished yet.