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Samuel Storm has devoted his life to preserving the past. As a historian and meticulous archivist, he believes that records, photographs, maps, and physical evidence are the foundations of truth. Every grave in Oakhaven Cemetery has a place in his carefully ordered understanding of history.Then one morning, he discovers that his father's grave no longer exists.The headstone of Thomas Storm has vanished completely, replaced by a patch of impossibly healthy grass. There is no disturbed earth, no missing stone, and no record that Thomas was ever buried there. The cemetery's official archives insist that the plot has been vacant for decades. Even the people Samuel remembers from his father's funeral seem unable to confirm that the event ever happened.But Samuel possesses photographs.In those photographs, he discovers something far more disturbing than a missing grave: a mysterious woman wearing a bright yellow raincoat. She appears at funerals separated by decades, never aging, always surrounded by a localized downpour-even when the surrounding cemetery is dry. Samuel begins calling her the Sentinel.As he searches through Oakhaven's forgotten records, Samuel discovers that the Sentinel has been appearing throughout the town's history. Wherever she is seen, graves eventually disappear from the official record, memories become uncertain, and pieces of reality are quietly erased. The dead are not simply forgotten. Something is collecting them.The investigation becomes even more terrifying when Samuel learns of the Great Harvesting, an ancient process in which the Sentinel absorbs the memories and identities of the dead, returning the town to an earlier, stripped-down version of itself. History is not being destroyed randomly; it is being pruned. Buildings revert to their older forms, photographs lose their subjects, archives become blank, and even personal memories begin to dissolve.Soon Samuel realizes that the danger is no longer limited to the dead. Those who remember the erased are also vulnerable. His own identity begins fading from photographs and records, and the world around him starts collapsing into gray static. Oakhaven becomes a place caught between memory and oblivion, while the endless rain advances toward its final harvest.With his father's existence disappearing and his own identity unraveling, Samuel must make one final attempt to preserve a record of what happened. But how can a historian defeat a force capable of rewriting the very evidence he depends upon?Dark, eerie, and deeply atmospheric, The Graveyard of Endless Rain is a supernatural mystery about grief, memory, identity, and the terrifying possibility that the past can be erased-and that remembering may come at the ultimate price.