Cars Come Down Fast

Jack’s warning to a child on a woodland road is ordinary: cars come down fast. Years later, a newspaper photograph makes the encounter impossible to forget.

When another man follows a similar girl into Larkey Valley Wood and escapes terrified, the Quiet Service begins asking whether the child is a ghost, a pattern, or something using an old tragedy as a shape.

Nell and March find no comforting answer. Some places do not choose the guilty. Some merely repeat the relationship offered to them.