Tiffany Karrar
The Line She Held
**\*\*SOME THINGS SURVIVE** **BECAUSE SOMEONE REFUSES** **TO LET THEM DISAPPEAR.\*\*** Twenty-five years ago, eight-year-old Tia Ashcroft entered the woods of Briar Hollow with Rowan Mercer. Only Tia came home—and whatever happened beneath the trees was buried inside the years she could no longer remember. Now Clara is gone, and Tia has returned to the farmhouse she swore she left behind. A porch light turns on by itself. Old photographs refuse to tell the same story twice. Voices call from places no one should answer. And the people of Briar Hollow remember just enough to know that forgetting has never been an accident. As Tia follows the line Clara spent a lifetime holding, she discovers that some things survive because someone refuses to let them disappear—a name, a promise, a place at the table, a light left burning for whoever still needs to find the way home.