The Ghost of Randolph Inn by TR Murrey

For thirty years, Cullom's Reach called it the Buggy Inn ? and no one who lived there would say the name without lowering their voice.

Women vanished from its halls. One by one, silently, without a trace ? a folded sheet, an empty room, a broken locket left behind. The town whispered of a haunted window on the third floor, a room that shouldn't exist, and a woman's white face pressed against the glass, screaming without sound.

When merchant Edwin Randolph tore the old inn down and rebuilt it as something respectable ? new walls, new name, new life ? Cullom's Reach exhaled. The past, it seemed, had finally been buried under fresh paint and polished brass.

It hadn't.

Decades later, Edwin's son Thomas returns to the family inn on a quiet summer night ? and finds the past waiting for him behind a locked door. A drowned man in torn, dripping clothes. A voice that mistakes him for someone else. A warning: she keeps them still ? the wronged, the lost ? sealed in the walls, in the dark.

As father and son are forced to confront the inn's true foundation ? a hanged woman, a mob's cold justice, and a debt three decades unpaid ? Thomas learns that some houses don't forget their sins. They wait for someone to open the door.