The past doesn't stay buried… it waits.
At ten years old, Sanford Crow uncovered the darkest truth a child could face: his father was a serial killer.
In 1969, while other boys dreamed of becoming heroes, Sanford quietly investigated his own home, following instincts he didn’t understand. What he found destroyed his childhood and tethered him forever to violence.
Twenty-five years later, Sanford is a divorced, recovering alcoholic raising his eight-year-old daughter and working as a crime scene cleaner, scrubbing away the aftermath of brutality while trying to convince himself he escaped it.
Then the killings begin again.
The new murders mirror his father’s crimes with chilling precision. Details only someone close to the original investigation would know. As the evidence tightens around him, Sanford is forced to confront an unthinkable possibility:
Is he losing time?
Or is something darker moving through him?
Sanford Crow is a psychological descent into inherited darkness, fractured memory, and the uneasy question of whether evil is something we escape… or something we carry.
Winner of the 2022 Watty Award
