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Murmuration: A Creature Horror Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Three years ago, ornithologist Dr. Mira Vasquez consulted for Corvus Biosystems on Strain V-7: engineered crows called Sentinels, built to think together and released across California's Central Valley as pest control. Her risk assessment said they would start hunting. Corvus noted her concerns, paid her fee and buried her report under an NDA.
On a July afternoon, a murmuration tears through Sacramento. Within hours the Valley belongs to the birds. They scout. They flank. They wait out anything that hides from them. There are forty million of them.
Mira's ten-year-old daughter, Sofi, is trapped at a summer camp in the Sierra foothills, two hundred miles south. Her one phone call home ends when the line goes dead.
With a paramedic she met that afternoon, Mira drives south down Highway 99 through a silent, watching valley toward the only thing that can still stop the Sentinels: the kill switch built on her own failsafe, locked inside the company that silenced her.
She was quiet the first time. She is done being quiet.
MURMURATION is a complete standalone creature horror thriller: one night, two hundred miles, and a full ending. No series to start, no cliffhanger.
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