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Compact
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When journalist Christopher Bennett investigates the disappearance of a doctoral student from Blackmoor University's historic library, he expects to uncover a crime.
Instead, he finds a ledger.
It contains nearly two centuries of names-students who vanished without explanation, each one part of a ritual hidden beneath the campus. There, Christopher uncovers the truth: the university's success has been sustained by a compact with an ancient predatory intelligence. In exchange for prosperity, carefully chosen students are sacrificed.
When Christopher interrupts the ceremony and exposes it to the world, he doesn't end the arrangement.
He breaks the control that kept it contained.
Now the entity is no longer feeding according to rules, and the institution built to manage it is collapsing. As federal authorities move to suppress the truth and the creature begins selecting victims on its own, Christopher must decide whether exposing the compact saved lives-or doomed far more.
Compact is a literary dark academia horror novel about institutional power, moral compromise, and the cost of survival inside systems designed to endure at any price.
For readers of The Secret History, Ninth House, and Annihilation.
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