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Salamonie Strain
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Something is wrong with the Salamonie River... and David Stone can feel it long before he understands it.
Strange tremors ripple through the water behind the family home in Warren, Indiana. The animals in the woods grow restless. Shadows move along the bank where nothing should be moving at all. David doesn't hear the river speak-but every instinct in him warns that something is waking beneath the surface.
His granddaughter, Ella, hears more than instinct.
She hears the river's voice.
Whispers rising from the depths.
Feelings woven into the current.
A presence calling her Papa's name.
While David struggles to protect his family-Ronda (Mimi), Krystel, Caiden, and Ella-their loyal dog Dakota becomes their first line of defense. She senses the wrongness in the air, growls at the unseen shapes stalking the fence line, and throws herself between the children and whatever lurks beyond the tree line... even before the rest of them understand the danger.
When a towering, half-human creature crawls out of the river and the townspeople begin sleepwalking toward the water, David realizes the truth:
Ella isn't imagining the whispers.
The river is alive.
And it wants him.
With the strain spreading through the valley and the First One hunting them through grain mills, forests, and collapsing towers, David must rely on Ella's voice, Dakota's instincts, and his family's strength to uncover an ancient cure hidden deep below Warren.
But even if they silence the river's mind, something older still dreams in the dark.
Inspired by real family and real places, The Salamonie Strain delivers a gripping blend of rural horror, family loyalty, and the terrifying things that rise when the water starts to think.
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