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Blood and Coral: Book I of the Blood and Coral Cycle
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Series: The Blood and Coral Cycle, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798270566210
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 18 2025
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 18 2025
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The reef is alive. It has been listening for years. And now it has the number it needs.
February 1942. Karen Forrester arrives at the Southernmost Academy for Young Ladies in the Florida Keys to take her post as headmistress - a last chance at respectability for a woman the academic world has quietly shut out. The Academy sits alone on its own coral key, reached by ferry, cut off from Key West by a stretch of shallow water that seems to take longer to cross than it should.
February 1942. Karen Forrester arrives at the Southernmost Academy for Young Ladies in the Florida Keys to take her post as headmistress - a last chance at respectability for a woman the academic world has quietly shut out. The Academy sits alone on its own coral key, reached by ferry, cut off from Key West by a stretch of shallow water that seems to take longer to cross than it should.
Something is wrong with the students. They move in unison sometimes, as if responding to a rhythm no one else can hear. The mathematics instructor has discovered his students solving equations they were never taught - equations that obey a different numerical logic entirely, one that seems to extend beyond the physical dimensions of the classroom. And the coral beneath the Academy is not merely rock. It is a living network, ancient and patient, that has been shaping the minds of everyone on the island for nearly a decade.
The pattern requires seventeen minds to complete. Karen's arrival has accelerated something that was already close to finished.
As Karen navigates the Academy's secrets - her complicated feelings for a fellow teacher, the arrival of two refugee children whose father's mathematics has unknowingly approached the same dimensional structures the coral uses to communicate, and the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Sheriff Ray Castellanos maps disturbances radiating outward from the school like ripples in water. Something at the coral key is affecting the entire island.
Blood and Coral is mythic historical horror set at the edge of America in wartime - a novel of identity, love, and the cost of standing between an ancient intelligence and the world it wants to enter. Book I of The Blood and Coral Cycle.
The pattern requires seventeen minds to complete. Karen's arrival has accelerated something that was already close to finished.
As Karen navigates the Academy's secrets - her complicated feelings for a fellow teacher, the arrival of two refugee children whose father's mathematics has unknowingly approached the same dimensional structures the coral uses to communicate, and the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Sheriff Ray Castellanos maps disturbances radiating outward from the school like ripples in water. Something at the coral key is affecting the entire island.
Blood and Coral is mythic historical horror set at the edge of America in wartime - a novel of identity, love, and the cost of standing between an ancient intelligence and the world it wants to enter. Book I of The Blood and Coral Cycle.
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