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Whispers Beneath the Surface - Seven Stories of Buried Secrets Twisted Pasts and the Silence That Screams - cover

Whispers Beneath the Surface - Seven Stories of Buried Secrets Twisted Pasts and the Silence That Screams

M.D. Thorn

Publisher: Twist & Tether Press

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Summary

Still waters run deep—but what lies beneath might drown you. In a town that never forgets, two sisters return to the lake where something more than memories was buried. Just down the road, a water tower casts a long shadow, and the local ghost story refuses to stay in the past.
 
A forgotten man wakes up in a house that should lead upward—but the only way forward is down. In another world, a nation plays its favorite game under the grip of a regime that turns sport into survival.
 
When a wallet turns up in a snowbank, the evidence it carries could ignite everything—or mean nothing at all. Meanwhile, the silence at the heart of a government is deafening, masking a coup no one sees coming.
 
And in the loneliest part of space, a man returns to Earth—but something about his memory is fractured, and time has left him behind.
 
This bundle unravels identity, memory, power, and truth in stories that teeter on the edge of madness. Beneath each surface, something dangerous waits—half-forgotten, half-remembered, and wholly unstoppable.
 
What if the real danger isn’t what you forgot… but what remembers you?
Available since: 08/08/2025.
Print length: 435 pages.

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