THE COALMAN'S BARGAIN: a Supernatural Horror Mystery of an Ancient Curse and Town’s Darkest Secret

The Coalman's Bargain is a supernatural horror mystery set in the isolated town of Ashwood Hollow, where people have been disappearing every November for more than a century.In 1897, mine foreman Silas Cutter made a desperate bargain with a mysterious entity after a devastating cave-in trapped eleven men underground. The men were returned alive-but the price was terrible: one person from the Hollow every year.More than a hundred years later, seventeen-year-old Cody Pruitt disappears, followed by others. Sheriff Dale Whitfield soon realizes that these disappearances are connected to the abandoned Number Four Mine and a secret his family has carried for generations. His daughter Emma and her friends become entangled in the mystery as the supernatural presence begins making bargains of its own.As Dale uncovers the truth, he must confront not only an ancient supernatural force but also the inherited debt and silence that allowed the bargain to continue. To save the missing and protect his daughter from inheriting the same curse, Dale must finally decide whether a debt built on love, sacrifice, and generations of fear can truly be broken.