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Horror Lurks Beneath
Series · 3 books · 2021-2022

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#1

It Waits on the Top Floor

2021

The tower appeared overnight, but it wants to keep you forever. Thursday night, it was a dirt lot. Friday morning, it was a 60-story skyscraper. A tech billionaire wants the building’s secrets for herself. She hires a team to reverse-engineer the overnight construction. But she knows more than she’s letting on. A curious 9-year-old decides there’s treasure inside, and goes exploring. His terrified dad chases close behind. Inside, the facade of an empty office building is quickly shattered. Ghostly figures stalk the explorers. The walls themselves are hungry. And something is waiting on the top floor.
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#2

They Cling to the Hull

2021

A cruise vacation becomes a fight for survival and sanity... Riley boards the cruise ship Aria with plans to steal her inheritance back from her wealthy uncle. But this isn’t the Aria from the brochure. It’s been replaced. The hallways bend in on themselves in impossible ways. Monstrous threats creep out of the off-limits Deck Two. And a stranger claims this has all happened before, in a skyscraper that appeared overnight. Riley must survive the haunted ship and solve its mysteries, or the Aria will claim her soul forever. They Cling to the Hull is the terrifying sequel to It Waits on the Top Floor, from the “unhinged imagination” of “one hell of a writer” (Shirley Jackson Award winner Daryl Gregory). This series is meant to be read in numerical order.
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#3

We Hide Our Faces

2022

In a small Virginia town, a library grows a new wing. Eddie has encountered impossible buildings before. He knows it’s a mysterious lure to an ancient evil. But when Dad disappears inside the infinite maze of library shelves, Eddie has no choice. He enters the library to solve its mysteries and confront its terror. Deep in the Pacific Ocean, water drains through a rip in reality. Riley barely survived the imposter cruise ship Aria. She never wants to see the ocean again. But then a federal agent forces Riley onto a Navy battleship. Its stop the ocean from draining. Once again, Riley finds herself on a ship beset by mysterious terrors. Eddie’s and Riley’s fights for survival barrel towards a horrific collision… with each other, and with an ancient horror they’ve encountered before… We Hide Our Faces is the terrifying followup to It Waits on the Top Floor and They Cling to the Hull, from the “unhinged imagination” of “one hell of a writer” (Shirley Jackson Award winner Daryl Gregory). This series is meant to be read in numerical order. This is Book 3.

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