The Hollow Judgment

When attorney Madeleine Cross travels to the isolated Blackpine Valley to claim her missing brother Daniel's body, she discovers he was secretly executed by a primitive elders' tribunal for interfering in a child custody case. As she digs deeper into the village of Briarwood, she uncovers a hidden world where a closed community enforces its own brutal laws, and where the seeds of sin planted in her brother's traumatic childhood finally bloom in the chilling indifference of the adults around him.