Welcome to Wonderland: Songs of Return (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798247024170)

The bridge was supposed to be quiet.

Years after the last disappearances, Briar Hollow has learned to live with what it doesn't understand. The rumors have faded. The children have grown. The past has been carefully sealed away at least, that's what the town tells itself.

But silence does not mean safety.

When faint sounds begin to drift through the woods near the bridge songs no one remembers teaching, laughter that arrives a moment too late the members of the Tea Party find themselves drawn back into a place they hoped they'd left behind. Something has returned. Not unchanged, and not alone.

As old fears resurface and new patterns emerge, the line between memory and reality begins to blur. People vanish without explanation. Others return... different. And the town's quiet insistence that nothing is wrong becomes its most dangerous lie.

Songs of Return is a psychological horror novel about unfinished stories, distorted innocence, and the cost of pretending that what was broken has been fixed.

Some doors never close.

They only learn how to wait.