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A Brilliant Spring
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 16 2020
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the small town of Hammond, intelligence blooms overnight.
So does violence.
When a genetically altered rose begins to spread through the community, the effects are subtle at first-sharper thinking, heightened perception, an unsettling sense of clarity. Then the crime starts. Brutal. Personal. Escalating.
Marc Landon only wanted to finish his father's life's work: a luminous flower that defied nature and bloomed longer than any rose ever should. Camelia Standdard is sent to investigate the town-wide anomaly, certain the government's theory is deeply malignant nonsense.
They are both wrong-just not in the way either of them expects.
Because the rose does not affect everyone equally.
It chooses.
It waits.
And it does not let go without consequence.
As Hammond fractures under the weight of brilliance sharpened into cruelty, Camelia discovers that whatever the rose awakened in her may never fully recede-and Marc learns that creation carries debts that cannot be paid with good intentions alone.
A Brilliant Spring is a dark, intimate horror novella about beauty as a catalyst, intelligence as a weapon, and the quiet terror of discovering that improvement does not mean salvation.
Reader note: This story contains violence, psychological horror, and disturbing themes. It is not a comfort read.
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