In a coastal town where the dead can walk during daylight once a year, a grieving woman hires a skeptic detective to find her missing husband — who disappeared not in life, but during his return from death.
Every year, on the first day of winter, the dead walked in Eidolon Cove.
They came not as shadows or restless phantoms, but as flesh and breath, under a pale
and watchful sun. At dawn, the graveyard gates swung open, and those who had
passed in the last decade returned — if only until dusk. The townsfolk called it The Day
of Return, and no one knew why it happened, only that it always had. Children met
grandparents they’d never known. Lovers reunited, if only for a few fragile hours. Old
debts were paid, old quarrels renewed, and words left unsaid were spoken at last. But
when night came, the living departed, and the dead went back to where the living could
not follow
Published on 2025-10-30 by Jam eBooks
Categories: Fiction Thriller / Mystery