The Land
Pine forests. Logging roads. County lines. A timber empire that looks like legacy until you start digging beneath the roots.
Based on actual events
What’s Buried Beneath The Pines
The pines remember everything.
The World
A family empire rooted in blood.
In Treutlen County, Georgia, the pine forests run deep. So do the grudges. Harris Timber was built on land, silence, and the kind of family history people bury because naming it would mean answering for it.
When Harlan Harris dies, his estranged son Gray is dragged back to Soperton — back to the timber company, back to Pine Sap Road, and back to the names carved into trees like grave markers nobody was supposed to find.
This is not a ghost story. It’s worse. It’s inheritance.
The Tone
Ozark married Succession. Their baby was named Yellowstone. True Detective raised it in the woods.
A prestige Southern Gothic crime mystery about wealth, land, legacy, corruption, old violence, and the terrifying suspicion that some families do not escape their sins — they pass them down.
The Hook
Nothing stays buried forever.
The Family
The Harrises are fractured by grief, money, violence, and the question every dynasty fears: who inherits the rot?
The Secret
Bodies. Names. Deals. Lies. A town that knows too much and says too little. The pines have been keeping score.
Proof of Concept
One booth. One family. One confession too late.
The short narrows the world into a pressure cooker: a rain-soaked diner, a fractured family, a dead patriarch, and the terrible realization that murder may not be the worst thing waiting outside in the dark.
Full short available upon request.
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The road ends where the truth begins.
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What’s Buried Beneath the Pines