The Cost of Return

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 w...