In the shadow of the 1980s, one town’s secrets awaken with the sound of cicadas…
 
In Covington, Kentucky, at the height of homecoming fever, beloved high school football coach Jonathan Jacob “Jackie” Shuttlesworth III is dragged from the sidelines in handcuffs accused of the unthinkable: the murder of Stacy Ingram, a local cheerleader. The evidence is airtight. The town is convinced. And Kenton County Attorney Jebidiah “Jeb” Davis is determined to make it an open-and-shut case.
 
But Jackie Shuttlesworth refuses to break, clinging to an alibi stitched together by his ex-wife, Jillian Schnieder-Shuttlesworth, and their two children, Brennon and Beonna. Jillian knows Jackie’s lying and she just doesn’t know why. And as the town’s rage turns toward her family, she’s forced to unravel the truth on her own.
 
Her search leads to a shocking discovery: footage that could both clear Jackie’s name and ruin what’s left of his legacy. But when Jeb urges her to bury the evidence, Jillian faces a terrible choice...protect her family’s honor or expose a secret darker than she imagined.
 
With the hum of cicadas rising in the air, Jillian follows a twisting trail of clues, drawing together unlikely allies: Jeb’s own son, a wary district attorney, and the grieving family of a second missing teen. Together, they uncover a chilling pattern stretching back generations and a killer that isn’t entirely human.
 
Every seventeen years, it comes. Every seventeen years, it claims its lovers. And this year… the price of silence will be blood.
 
A Southern Gothic thriller steeped in mystery, folklore, and betrayal, The Curse of the Color Indigo asks: how far will one woman go to save a man who won’t save himself—and what horrors lie beneath the surface of a town desperate to forget?