Gabriel's Requiem

Gabriel's Requiem
Book One of the Beyond the Seven Stones Series

Some houses are haunted. This one is hungry.

Molly Waters is barely holding her life together. Evicted, unemployed, and sleeping in her car with her six-year-old son, Gabriel, she's run out of second chances. When a family friend offers them a crumbling estate deep in the woods-rent-free-Molly dares to believe her luck has turned. The old Proctor mansion is a labyrinth of dust, stained glass, and secrets, but it's a free roof over their heads. It's safety. It's hope.

Gabriel thinks it's a castle.

Exploring the cellar on the first night in his new castle, Gabriel finds a box that shouldn't exist-tied with hair, bound in leather, carved with symbols that seem to breathe, and holding a black stone that swallows the light. When a voice inside the dark offers him friendship, protection, and a way to meet the father he never knew, Gabriel opens a door he can never close. The voice calls itself Az. It promises wonder and the ability to speak to Gabriel's father in Heaven. It's lying.

Something ancient has been waiting beneath the house for centuries. Now it's free. And it wants Gabriel to sing.

As Molly fights to build a fragile new life-finding unexpected love with a gentle giant of a contractor-she doesn't notice the shadows pooling a little too deeply in her son's eyes. She can't hear the whispers from the pond at the edge of the property, where an unthinkable presence stirs. She doesn't feel the first chill of a sickness beginning to spread across the world, a cough that won't go away, a fever that burns too hot.

Gabriel is changing. His innocent smile now flashes with something older and hungrier. Anyone who is mean to Gabriel seems to befall a horrible 'freak accident' while the bullies at school learn to fear him. The cruel socialite who tried to destroy his mother learns to run. And when his wealthy, vindictive grandparents arrive to tear him away, Gabriel discovers he can hurt them in ways no child should be able to imagine.

Because the first stone has been awakened-Pestilence walks the planet, and that is only the beginning.

A genre-wrecking fusion of supernatural possession, apocalyptic dread, and heart-wrenching family tragedy, Gabriel's Requiem launches readers into a nightmare where the end of the world has a heartbeat-and it sounds like a child's lullaby. For fans of A Head Full of Ghosts, The Exorcist, and the slow-burn terror of Hereditary, this is the horror event that will have you sleeping with the lights on.

The requiem is playing. Will you listen?

Grab your copy of Gabriel's Requiem, Book One: Beyond the Seven Stones today-and discover why readers can't stop talking about the boy who will end the world.