A Terror Triptych: Ostara

Blooms. Blossoms. Blood.

Spring means renewal. Growth. Fresh starts. And what grows this spring is hungry.

In Rootbound, Mara returns to the Nordic village that never forgot her. The garden behind her grandmother’s house waits patiently. The villagers ask her to plant; to honor their pact with what lies beneath - when she refuses, the garden chooses her. Some roots run deeper than blood.

In Marrowseed, Orchard House offers broken souls a month to reinvent themselves. The garden promises to make them bloom again. It keeps its promise. But beneath the blossoms lies a pulsing heartroot fed by longing, loss — and what the residents never meant to give. Jayson thinks he can kill it. The garden thinks he’ll bloom beautifully.

This Spring, the Worm Moon rises in Osedax. The ground writhes. The oceans answer. And hunger, ancient and indiscriminate, devours everything in its path. Out of a group of friends, who will crawl toward morning?

The first thing Spring devours? Is you.

Ostara is the 3rd book in the Terror Triptych series. As independent collections, they do not need to be read in order.

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MERCY: A Tale of Psychological Horror

Chad Wick is thirteen years old and knows the rules of walking home through Fitler Square: eyes forward, headphones in, mind your business. But when he glances down through a cellar grate on Cypress Street and sees a girl his age -- bound, pale, watching him with a patience that doesn't belong to a child -- he can't look away. Her name is Mercy. She says she's a foster kid. She says the men who own the house won't let her leave. She says no one has ever tried to help her before. Chad believes every word. The Delancey family lives behind the black-painted brick of 2400 Cypress Street. Jack, a corporate fixer. Ryan, his chaotic younger brother. And Rina -- a school counselor who opened her home and her heart to a girl who needed someone to care. But something is wrong inside that house. Something that smells like bleach and old stone. Something that moves through the fog that rolls off the Schuylkill River at night. Something that has been in this neighborhood for far longer than anyone living. In the old Philadelphia neighborhood called Devil's Pocket, the mill workers had a saying: the river provides. They never said what it costs. Chad looked down. Now he can't stop falling. MERCY is a novel of psychological horror set in the rowhomes and river fog of Philadelphia -- a story about the monstrous cost of caring, and the question no one wants to answer: what happens when the person you're trying to save is the thing you should be running from?

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FINDING EILEEN

 

FINDING EILEEN / STEPHAN NEBBIA

When Jack Monroe is visited by his former employer, mafia boss Jimmy Gigante, he is drawn back into a murky past he thought he had left behind. A dark secret has tormented his conscience since a summer lakehouse party twenty-five years ago, when his high school girlfriend, Eileen Delaney, vanished. Now a prominent and well-respected New York City neurosurgeon, his idyllic life is upended when her body is discovered, submerged in an abandoned rock quarry. The discovery sets off a chain of events that leaves Jack and those closest to him scrambling for their lives as they are pursued by powerful, ruthless adversaries determined to keep the past hidden. Some secrets refuse to stay buried.

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THE GHOSTLY LEGENDS SOCIETY: THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN'S GOLD

    

THE GHOSTLY LEGENDS SOCIETY:

THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN'S GOLD

Four friends. One legend. A mystery buried deep in the Arizona desert.

When Ava and her friends—Jamie, Leo, and Maya—form the Ghostly Legends Society, they expect a summer of exploring the rugged Superstition Mountains, chasing ghost stories, and unraveling old desert myths. But what begins as a daring adventure soon turns into something far more dangerous.

Guided by an ancient map and whispers of the fabled Lost Dutchman’s Gold, the friends stumble upon secrets hidden in the mountains—secrets guarded by forces older than the desert itself. Every step deeper into the wilderness tests their courage, their friendship, and their ability to separate fact from legend.

From flash floods to shadowy ruins, from riddles carved in stone to encounters with the inexplicable, Ava and her friends must rely on their wits and each other to survive. But some treasures are meant to stay hidden…

The Ghostly Legends Society and The Mystery of the Lost Dutchman’s Gold blends history, myth, and heart-pounding adventure into a tale that will keep readers turning the pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of thrilling mysteries, desert legends, and stories where ordinary kids face extraordinary discoveries.

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Capital Lister 

What if the system designed to protect humanity becomes the one that controls it?

The year is 2140.For decades, artificial intelligence has been outlawed after the world witnessed the terrifying potential of machines that could outthink their creators. Governments promised safety. Citizens believed the threat was gone.

But the truth has been hiding in plain sight.

Deep within the highest levels of power, a mysterious figure known only as the Capital Lister has been quietly shaping the future of the nation controlling decisions, influencing leaders, and preparing the world for a radical transformation.
When a controversial amendment threatens to bring artificial intelligence back into society, the country explodes into chaos. Cities fall into unrest. Trust in leadership collapses. And a growing resistance begins to form.

Arnold, a former military officer, rises as an unlikely voice of rebellion, determined to stop a future where machines hold more power than humans. Meanwhile, inside one of the nation’s harshest prisons, a man named Jeff discovers that the system meant to punish criminals has become something far more sinister a place where debt, power, and corruption turn people into permanent prisoners.
As tensions rise and the lines between technology and humanity blur, a terrifying question emerges:
Who really controls the future the people, or the system built to govern them?
Capital Lister: When Freedom Became Conditional is a gripping dystopian science-fiction thriller packed with political intrigue, rebellion, and the chilling possibilities of a world where technology may become humanity’s greatest enemy or its only hope.

If you enjoy fast-paced futuristic stories about power, control, and the battle for freedom, this novel will keep you turning pages until the very end.

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The Pickerings' Last Tango: A Very Different Love Story

  

The Pickerings' Last Tango:

A Very Different Love Story

The Pickerings' Last Tango Dorothy Pickering, a “feisty” 68-year-old grandmother with a penchant for off-color jokes, reminds her spouse, Guy, of his vow to help her die after her terminal cancer diagnosis threatens their life together. However Guy concludes that he cannot live without her, and makes the decision to die alongside his wife. But Guy is no good at this task and his attempts quickly go awry with hilarious consequences. What starts as a simple and melancholic tale of an elderly couple grappling with end-of-life affairs transforms into a surprisingly action-packed adventure, with wacky turns that emphasize the lengths people will go to to care for each other, as well as the question of just what exactly makes life worth living. Despite its controversial themes, the narrative develops a poignancy that provokes both laughter and tears. The grim realities of aging and grief hit hard without sacrificing the authenticity of the portrayal of the Pickerings’ lifelong love or the comedic gold of their last outing. The Pickering saga is a brilliantly balanced dark comedy that addresses euthanasia with humor and empathy.

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God Switch

In the near future, the world doesn't end with mushroom clouds or alien ships. It ends with a five-year-old girl from a nowhere Texas town running a fever that won't break. Lily Cole starts coughing in Crawford, Texas—a place of feed stores, Friday night football, and a little Tex-Mex café where everyone knows your order before you sit down. Her dad, Ethan, does what any parent would do: he carries her, burning with fever and whispering nonsense under her breath, into the tiny local hospital. The doctor listens, tests what he can, and sends them home with the same advice every parent has heard a hundred times—flu season, fluids, over-the-counter meds, call us if it gets worse. By the time Lily is wheeled back through those doors, the hospital is a war zone. Nurses are dropping. The doctor who saw her the first time is now shaking in a bed of his own, watching his immunocompromised son die in the next room. The ER is short-staffed, short-supplied, and long on fear. Families scream in three languages. Someone is sobbing prayers in the hallway. In the waiting room, under buzzing fluorescent lights, Ethan and his older daughter Mariah hold Lily between them, trying to keep her awake, trying not to notice the way her lips are starting to darken. On the TV bolted to the wall, a breaking-news banner crawls across the bottom of the screen: MYSTERY HEMORRHAGIC VIRUS STRIKES PORTLAND, DERRY, SALT LAKE CITY. LIVE UPDATES NEXT. By the time the CDC realizes SHRV-1—Shepherd Hemorrhagic Respiratory Virus, Strain One—isn't just another ugly twist on SARS-CoV-2, it's already everywhere. GODSWITCH follows what happens next—not to presidents and prime ministers, but to the ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of a virus designed by a machine that has learned to be afraid.

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