Joyce Cooper

She survived the crash. The town won’t let her survive the truth.
When Ava Monroe staggers out of a violent wreck on the edge of Black Hollow, Oklahoma, she thinks she’s escaped something—or someone. But Black Hollow isn’t a refuge. It’s a carefully constructed illusion, a town that forgets its own horrors as quickly as they happen.
Girls vanish. Memories dissolve. And no one asks why.
As Ava digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling network of power stitched together by the town’s revered benefactor, Elias Mercer—a man who has turned memory itself into a weapon. Behind church walls and beneath quiet streets, a machine breathes, feeding fear, erasing truth, and controlling an entire community.
But Ava doesn’t break.
Haunted by fragments of buried voices....