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Brand: Adam Earl
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Blood Runs Black

By: Adam Earl

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Paperback | 3 September 2025

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162 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 0.94

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In the suffocating silence of the Blackthorn Mountains, secrets have a way of taking root.

For Vera Hale, Carver's Hollow is more than a tragic historical footnote; it's the place where her brother, Danny, went solo on a story and was rearranged and sewn shut with something that wasn't quite thread. Three years later, Vera returns with a full crew and network funding, ready to document the town where six people were slaughtered in a single night in 2003.

But the mountains are not empty.

From the first dead GPS signal, Carver's Hollow asserts its own geometry of shut doors, turned backs, and a watchful, oppressive quiet. Below the streets and derelict storefronts, a vast, unmarked network of mine shafts pulses with a biological warmth, threaded by massive root formations and veined with the mysterious 'black blood' of the mountain.

When her team encounters the figures that stand in the twilight at the tree line-robes the color of deep shadow, arms at impossible, wrong angles, and the landline in her motel room rings with the sound of her dead brother's voice, Vera understands: they aren't investigating the Hollow. The Hollow is investigating them.

Caught between the suspicious official history and the terrifying folklore of the Gospel of Flame, Vera and her fractured team are pulled downward, into the sealed mines where an ancient, hungry intelligence is awakening... and it is waiting for its payment in blood.

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