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The House of Fortitude
Paperback
Series: Fortitude of Sins, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this house, secrets aren't just kept. They are archived.
Ten elite guests. One mountain fortress. A dinner party designed for a reckoning.
Arthur Beaumont Harrington is a man of Fortitude. For decades, he has used his limestone estate atop Blackthorn Hill to collect the one currency that never devalues: leverage. His house is a masterpiece of digital surveillance and psychological engineering-a place where the walls hear every heartbeat and the floors record every lie.
But tonight, the game has changed.
At precisely 9:30 p.m., as the champagne is poured and the storm outside reaches its peak, the steel shutters slam shut. The signal dies. The lights fail. And when they stutter back to life, Arthur Harrington lies dead on his own marble floor.
Trapped inside a military-grade Faraday cage with their host's cooling corpse, the remaining guests-the politician, the fixer, the doctor, and the mistress-realize they aren't just suspects. They are specimens.
Nathaniel Crowe, a detective consumed by a fifteen-year obsession with Harrington, finds himself admitted into the trap. But he soon learns that in the House of Fortitude, the law is just another variable. As a silent administrator known only as The Curator begins to release encrypted envelopes of truth from the house's subterranean archive, the guests must face a terrifying reality:
The house doesn't want a confession. It wants a liquidation.
As the Physics of the Fall takes hold, and a hidden heir emerges from the shadows, only one question remains: Who will be left standing when the Archive finally purges itself?
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