On Christmas Eve, when the perfect little town is buried in lights, music, and fresh snowfall…something darker is buried with it.

Every year on this night, one child disappears—and every year, Hickory Springs pretends its peace isn't built on fear. The Order keeps vigil, the police stay silent, and the townspeople cling to tradition, praying this Christmas Eve will be different.

But this year, Leon Walcott is out to end the terror.

A former detective shattered by loss, Leon wants nothing more than to find Red—the shadow that destroys the joy of Christmas in Hickory Springs and the one who stole his daughter years ago. When the terror of the night begins, and a personal message surfaces from Red himself, Leon is thrust into a race through blinding snow, shadowed rooftops, and the hidden corners of the town that once trusted him.

Armed with nothing but his training, his instincts, and a faith he thought was long dead, Leon must face the monster who has turned Christmas into a night of terror. As the storm deepens and the town's buried secrets rise to the surface, he discovers that the hunt for Red is more than a pursuit…

It's a reckoning.

And before dawn breaks, Leon Walcott will have to decide what kind of man he truly is—because in Hickory Springs, light and darkness both come at a cost.

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