The year is 1949. Brightvale is a town steeped in paranoia and corruption, where whispers travel faster than the wind and secrets are currency. At sixteen, Lucy Sinclair, inheriting her father's instincts and a knack for truth-seeking, has established herself as Brightvale's sharpest investigator. But when a house explodes on an otherwise quiet evening, Lucy stumbles upon something she wasn't meant to find-a cryptic notebook and the faint silhouette of a man vanishing into the night. The fire should have left nothing but ash. Instead, it sparks a mystery no one in Brightvale wants solved.