Some doors should never be opened. Some debts can never be repaid. When nineteen-year-old Maggie Jamison discovers a waterlogged journal wedged in her family's bookshop door during a violent storm, she thinks it's just another relic from Widow's Bay's forgotten past. But the journal is still writing itself—and it has a message for her. As a joke, Maggie and her friends perform the ritual described in its pages. They light five candles. They speak the words. They offer their names. By morning, the fog has arrived. It doesn't lift. It doesn't move. And people who walk into it come back... wrong. They look the same. They know the same things. But they're hollow. Empty. And they want others to join them in the mist. Maggie discovers she's become the Keeper—bound to an ancient entity called the Shepherd that feeds on souls. It needs five to anchor permanently in our world. It already has three. And it's offering Maggie a bargain she's desperate to accept: Give it the final two souls, and it will return her dead mother. All Maggie has to do is choose who dies. But the Shepherd is patient. The Shepherd is kind. And the Shepherd always collects what it's owed. Perfect for fans of supernatural horror with emotional depth, THE FOG KEEPER'S JOURNAL explores grief, guilt, and the terrible price of trying to undo the past. Some losses can't be fixed. Some sacrifices can't be undone. And some things that wear familiar faces aren't human anymore. The fog is waiting. Will you answer its call