When a heavy rainfall unearths a human hand on the edge of Heysham Nature Reserve, retired detective George Mallory finds himself back in the world he thought he'd left behind. The discovery draws Inspector Harmony Freeman to the scene and back into the shadow of the man who once mentored her.As Freeman and her team sift through decades of silence, the lines between past and present blur, she discovers a web of lost girls, forgotten protests, and men whose charm once masked brutality.Old loyalties resurface and evidence long-buried begins to breathe again. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she suspects that George knows something he never put in his reports-something the ground has been keeping for him all these years.Haunting, lyrical, and rooted in the salt-bitten north, The Witness Beneath traces how secrets buried in earth can surface again to demand justice. The past never sleeps-it only waits for the right storm.