When Echoes Awake

(Echoes of the Unmade - Book One)

Briar Glen is a quiet town that doesn't ask questions.
It just forgets them.

When seventeen-year-old Orin Holloway's father vanishes near the edge of the forest, the town carries on as if nothing has changed. Streetlights flicker. Announcements repeat. Familiar places feel subtly wrong. No one seems willing to notice-except Orin.

And the compass that shouldn't exist.

Pulled from a dream and humming with impossible intent, the compass points toward the forest Briar Glen avoids naming. Toward something ancient beneath the roots. Toward a presence that doesn't hunt with claws or teeth, but with memory, silence, and slow, deliberate rewriting.

As Orin and his closest friends begin to compare notes, they realize the truth is more dangerous than disappearance. The town itself is enforcing rules-punishing attention, erasing evidence, and correcting reality when it strays too far from what it wants to be remembered.

The deeper they look, the more the world pushes back.

Someone-or something-has been shaping Briar Glen for generations. It listens. It waits. And it doesn't forgive those who try to map it.

When Echoes Awake is a slow-burn supernatural horror novel about grief, unreliable reality, and the cost of noticing what others refuse to see. Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric dread, small-town horror, and stories where the environment itself becomes the threat.

This is Book One of the Echoes of the Unmade series.

The forest is awake.
And it remembers who you are.