Regret Is a Doorway
Overview
In Briar Hollow, Texas, grief doesn't fade - it waits.
When Rowan dares to speak the regret he has carried since his mother's death, the town listens. The basement of the Briar Hollow Museum becomes a pressure chamber where confession warps reality and silence fractures stone. What begins as an attempt to understand grief turns into something far more dangerous: a negotiation with an ancient presence that feeds not on fear, but on consent.
As lightning tears open the Texas sky and oilfields bleed consequence into cracked earth, a cryptid born of accumulated guilt rises from the land itself. Maeve, bound by a secret contract made years before, becomes the Harvester's conduit - and Rowan must learn that regret is not weakness, but a doorway.
The cost of speaking is real.
The war is structural.
And the town is already threading itself into something larger.
Regret Is a Doorway is a gothic psychological horror novel about consent, consequence, and the terrible geometry of grief. In Briar Hollow, confession is not absolution.
It is infrastructure.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798295666421
- ISBN-10: 9798295666421
- Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
- Publish Date: March 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.28 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 132
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