Rye Adler came to Mercy Ridge for an insurance claim.
He finds a county on fire.
As wildfire smoke rolls over the mountains, evacuees pour into Mercy Ridge Consolidated, a high school turned emergency shelter. Families arrive with pets, oxygen tanks, children, and whatever pieces of their lives they could carry. The county is overwhelmed, the roads are closing, and everyone is being told to trust the system.
But Rye has seen what happens when disaster turns people into records.
When a child vanishes from the shelter and a family appears checked into two places at once, Rye knows Mercy Ridge is facing more than a wildfire. A private emergency contractor has wrapped itself around the county’s evacuation system, and somewhere inside the confusion, names are being changed, routes are being rewritten, and vulnerable people are being moved where no one can find them.
Deputy June Hart wants order. Sheriff Amos Vale needs the system to keep working. Rye only trusts names written on paper, frightened witnesses, and the people willing to remember what the tablets erase.
As the fire climbs the ridge and the evacuation turns deadly, Rye must uncover who is using Mercy Ridge as cover before more people disappear into the smoke.
Dark, tense, and relentless, Mercy Ridge is a hard-edged thriller about disaster, corruption, and the people who refuse to let the missing become paperwork.
Genre: Mystery
He finds a county on fire.
As wildfire smoke rolls over the mountains, evacuees pour into Mercy Ridge Consolidated, a high school turned emergency shelter. Families arrive with pets, oxygen tanks, children, and whatever pieces of their lives they could carry. The county is overwhelmed, the roads are closing, and everyone is being told to trust the system.
But Rye has seen what happens when disaster turns people into records.
When a child vanishes from the shelter and a family appears checked into two places at once, Rye knows Mercy Ridge is facing more than a wildfire. A private emergency contractor has wrapped itself around the county’s evacuation system, and somewhere inside the confusion, names are being changed, routes are being rewritten, and vulnerable people are being moved where no one can find them.
Deputy June Hart wants order. Sheriff Amos Vale needs the system to keep working. Rye only trusts names written on paper, frightened witnesses, and the people willing to remember what the tablets erase.
As the fire climbs the ridge and the evacuation turns deadly, Rye must uncover who is using Mercy Ridge as cover before more people disappear into the smoke.
Dark, tense, and relentless, Mercy Ridge is a hard-edged thriller about disaster, corruption, and the people who refuse to let the missing become paperwork.
Genre: Mystery
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