Child Eater

When private investigator Tabitha Jordan arrives in a quiet town to find a missing girl, she expects resistance-maybe even danger. She doesn't expect a town with no children, a shuttered school, and whispers of a creature the locals only call the child eater.

The deeper Tabitha digs, the stranger the case becomes. A decades-old disappearance mirrors the current one. A wildflower patch grows where nothing else will. And the abandoned house tied to both children feels disturbingly lived-in. As shadows close in, Tabitha and contractor David Matherson are drawn into a mystery that stretches back generations and straight into the woods the town fears.

When another attack leaves David gravely injured, Tabitha refuses to abandon him. Together, they descend into a hidden cavern where the truth waits in the dark. . . along with something hungry. What they find forces Tabitha to confront not only the monster stalking the town, but the ghosts of her own childhood trauma.