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Echo Park Runners: A Sci-Fi Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2025
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At 3:15 a.m., Echo Park gives some runners back.
The ones it keeps do not stay buried.
A body appears in Echo Park with no clear cause of death, no clean timeline, and one detail Detective Ava Moreno can't shake: the victim may have died decades ago.
Then another runner is seen moving through the fog.
Not a man. Not exactly. A faded figure, always at a distance, always just ahead, slipping through the park before dawn as if time itself has torn open and left something behind.
When Ava starts pulling at the thread, the city answers with lies.
A disgraced scientist is hiding the remains of an experiment that should never have left the lab. A historian finds records that were never meant to survive. A streetwise survivor knows the park has been feeding on secrets for years. And every trail leads back to the same impossible truth: Echo Park is not just haunted.
It is active.
Old routes are reappearing. Forgotten names are returning. People are being drawn toward places they have never been, yet somehow remember. At the center of it all is a vanished project tied to time distortion, erased evidence, and a pattern that keeps repeating at the exact same moment every night.
3:15 a.m.
Now Ava has one chance to stop a new breach before the city is pulled into it.
But Echo Park does not give up its dead quietly.
And the more she learns, the clearer the real danger becomes:
The runners are not lost.
They are coming back.
- A haunting supernatural thriller with a hard-edged investigative core
- Urban dread, buried experiments, erased histories, and a city caught in a repeating wound
- For readers who want eerie atmosphere, real momentum, and a mystery that keeps widening beneath every answer
If you like your thrillers dark, fast, and charged with supernatural menace, Echo Park Runners is built to keep you turning pages late into the night.
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