Buried in the Salt

Twenty years ago, Caleb and his friends sealed the mayor’s grandson inside a forgotten well—and swore never to speak of it. Now, as developers threaten to unearth their secret, his old friends turn on him, trapping him in the same well to keep the past buried. Betrayed, tortured, and left for dead, Caleb claws his way back for revenge, ready to make them pay for every scar.

Twenty years ago, I locked my daughter in a cabinet and walked away, haunted by guilt ever since. Now, with my son's high-society wedding on the line, the past claws its way back—my daughter's voice echoing from the grave, demanding to be found. If I can’t face the horror I buried, my family’s future—and my soul—may be lost forever.

Some secrets won’t stay buried—especially when they come clawing up from the dark. When Eli’s grandfather dies under mysterious, violent circumstances, a tattered notebook reveals the truth: something monstrous was unleashed in the haunted coal mine decades ago, and it’s never stopped hunting. Now Eli is the only one willing to face the curse that shattered his family. As cryptic warnings, ghostly apparitions, and chilling messages begin to invade his life, Eli must decide whether to dig deeper into the mine’s nightmare—or run before he becomes the next to vanish. What really happened underground, and why is the terror following him home? The answers are buried in darkness... but some doors, once opened, can never be closed.

Death was only the beginning—now I’m stuck in the afterlife’s endless line, desperate for a second chance. Forced into a ghost marriage and buried alive, my spirit lingers, tethered to the world by the wish for justice. When a wild bouquet leads rookie detective Quinn Harper to my lost grave, he becomes bound to my fate by a single broken bone. As Quinn investigates the tangled secrets of Maple Heights and my family’s hidden betrayals, every revelation draws him deeper into a web of lies, love, and vengeance. Can the truth set my soul free—or will the living and the dead both pay the price for what happened thirty years ago?

I sold my soul to a scam ring for a shot at survival, not redemption. Buried in the Arizona desert, Maya’s world is blood, numbers, and brutal loyalty—where one slip can cost you your life or your freedom. She’s traded her past for a new identity and clawed her way to the top, outwitting both marks and monsters to earn her place. But when her next target’s name comes up—someone tied to the secrets she’s running from—Maya must decide if she’ll risk everything to win, or finally become the prey. In a compound where trust is a weapon and mercy is weakness, can Maya outplay the devil himself—or will her own ghosts bring her down?

After thirteen years trapped beneath a cursed artifact, a vengeful spirit is resurrected in the body of Natalie—the Montgomery family’s discarded daughter. Betrayed by blood, Natalie returns to claim the life and justice she was denied. Now, with nothing left to lose, she’ll burn every lie to the ground and force the powerful to finally see her worth.

When a routine fingerprint scan links small-town barbecue king Caleb Jensen to a decades-old family massacre, a determined clerk must unravel the tangled threads of memory, identity, and love. As secrets from the past resurface, the truth threatens to destroy everything Caleb and his wife Natalie have built. Will confronting the ghosts of yesterday cost them the future they’ve fought for?

Death was only the beginning for Silver Hollow’s wildest souls. When Big Mike dies with a drumstick in his mouth, it sets off a chain of betrayals, heartbreak, and supernatural reckonings no one saw coming. Nate—once the town’s troublemaker, now a preacher—wrestles with his own salvation as old friends turn into enemies and secrets bubble up from the grave. A stolen treasure, a cursed envelope, and a relentless manhunt force the narrator to choose between loyalty and survival. But when a portal to hell opens, the true cost of brotherhood—and the real identity of the preacher—will be revealed. In a world where redemption has a price, will any soul make it out whole? Or will Silver Hollow’s ghosts claim them all?

Derek Foster built a secret bed to hide beneath the woman he’s obsessed with, craving the intimacy she’ll never willingly give. But when her fiancé enters the picture, Derek’s obsession spirals into violence—and a gruesome, claustrophobic nightmare. Now, trapped with a rotting corpse and his sanity slipping, Derek realizes too late that love and madness are only a heartbeat apart.

When Daniel Sullivan is detained for lacking ID, his family is plunged into a nightmare—no answers, only a rushed funeral and a death certificate that reeks of cover-up. Bruises on Daniel’s body hint at a brutal secret the city wants to erase. Leonard refuses to let his son become another forgotten victim, vowing to expose the truth even if it destroys him.

You can’t outrun guilt—or the dead. When Carter Hensley, bestselling horror novelist, is stopped at a midnight DUI checkpoint, his heart pounds for more reasons than one: his wife’s corpse is hidden in the trunk. As the trooper’s questions close in, Carter’s mind frays—until a chance encounter with a fan in uniform lets him slip away. But terror is waiting on the open road. His wife returns, twisted and relentless, forcing Carter to flee into the skeleton of an abandoned building, haunted by memories and hunted by something that may not be real. As guilt, grief, and horror converge, Carter must decide: can he trust anyone to save him, or is he doomed to be destroyed by his own secrets? When the line between hallucination and reality shatters, will Carter’s final confession be heard—or will the truth stay buried with his wife?

Alex thought the worst thing about the seventh-floor duplex was the lack of an elevator—until rumors of ghostly wails, swarming flies, and a hidden breaker hinted at a deadly secret. As a friend weighs moving in, Alex uncovers a chilling mystery: a body concealed somewhere within the apartment’s walls, its presence masked by lies and a landlord desperate to keep the past buried. In a city where secrets fester like summer flies, will the truth finally claw its way out?