The Guilt of the Clay

The Guilt of the Clay

“Some truths are buried too deep for a plaque.”

Dr. Elowen Carne, The Listener, listens to the echoes of the past, the memories trapped in Cornwall’s landscape. Hired to assess the historic Vorlan China Clay Pit for a luxury lagoon development, she is caught between a corporation demanding a sanitised history and a community fighting for its soul.

Her first contact with the pit is a psychic scream - the phantom terror of a catastrophic collapse. Official records call it a minor incident. The local community calls it ‘The Great Swallow,’ a mass grave the company hushed up a century ago.

As Ellie uses her unique gift to unearth the truth, the developer attacks her credibility and her career. Now, she must risk everything to prove that the land itself holds the evidence of a crime. To give thirty lost souls their names back, she must force the world to listen to a story it is desperate to forget.

A story where the past refuses to stay buried - or be silenced.

An immersive literary mystery where memory itself becomes the crime scene.