Zachary Maughan

Some Dreams don’t end when you wake up.
After their sister Mara’s death…
Eli wakes night after night, drenched in sweat, haunted by dreams too vivid, too violent to ignore. Dreams where something ancient crawls through the cracks in reality. Something watching, waiting. Something called the Bender.
When his younger brother Noah begins sketching the...

Some names are written in ink.
Others are carved in bone.

Eli thought surviving the Bender once was the end of the nightmare. He was wrong.

Kenzie is missing. People are forgetting. And the name that once saved him now marks him.

As Eli searches for answers, a decaying ghost town called Teller’s Gap begins to whisper his name back. Inside its...