Introduction: The year is 1949. Brightvale is a quarantined town built on secrets, where paranoia lingers in every alleyway, and the wrong question can land you in trouble.At sixteen, Lucy Sinclair has earned a reputation as Brightvale鈥檚 sharpest investigator, inheriting her father鈥檚 instincts and an unshakable need for the truth. But when a house erupts into flames on an otherwise quiet evening, she stumbles upon something she was never meant to see鈥攁 cryptic notebook, a pair of dog tags, and the silhouette of a man slipping away into the night.The fire should have erased every trace.Instead, it sets off a mystery that someone will do anything to keep buried....