Harvest Moon and Haunted Ground - Isabel Campbell;Michael Anderle

 Roxie Ryder's rule for October: no murders at the festival. Her record is not great.

She's survived three of them in as many years. So when the true crime podcaster with 2.3 million followers arrived asking pointed questions about Howling Falls' darkest founding secrets, Roxie had a bad feeling.

She was right. Margot Vale is dead in the upper orchard, the phone missing, the Samhain rift her death cracked open pulling every violent ghost this mountain has ever held into broad daylight.

Roxie is running two investigations at once: the one the sheriff can see, and the one only she can. Because Margot didn't leave. She's still here, still narrating everything, and still three days from becoming Howling Falls' most permanent resident if Roxie can't name the killer before Halloween midnight.

The clock is real. The killer is still at the festival. The dead are walking the orchard rows in full view of the cider tent.

Will Roxie solve a murder woven through a century and a half of buried history and give Margot the ending she earned? Or will the truth stay quiet, exactly the way someone needs it to be? Grab Harvest Moon and Haunted Ground find out.