The Cost of Return
Overview
Briar Hollow, Texas, was supposed to survive the fractures.
It did not survive the reversal.
After gravity turns upward for ten impossible seconds, the town is left physically shattered and spiritually exposed. Roads split like bone. Buildings tilt at unnatural angles. People whisper about what they saw in the sky - and what was looking back. Beneath the limestone, something ancient has stopped negotiating.
Rowan refuses to bargain with the force known as the Witness, even as it inhabits the willing and tears through bedrock with antler-shaped geometry. Maeve understands the equation: every extraction demands equal displacement. But when the land itself begins rewriting gravity, the cost of survival is no longer mathematical - it is personal.
As possession spreads and fractures race beyond town limits, Briar Hollow must decide whether to surrender a body... or become a foundation for something inhuman.
In this gothic psychological horror, love becomes resistance, defiance becomes war, and gravity itself becomes negotiable.
Some returns demand repayment.
And the earth always collects.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798295672095
- ISBN-10: 9798295672095
- Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
- Publish Date: March 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.37 pounds
- Page Count: 118
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