{"product_id":"blackgarden-stephen-c-poore-9798259492165","title":"Blackgarden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlackgarden\u003c\/b\u003e is a dark gothic fantasy thriller set inside the hidden machinery of crown, state, memory and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the visible world of governments, records and royal continuity lies Blackgarden: a secret archive where names are erased, truths are buried, and the dead are filed away as if history itself could be managed. It is not merely a place. It is a system built on silence, power and fear - a place where the past is not preserved, but controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost people will never know it exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose who do rarely leave unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor generations, Blackgarden has catalogued the impossible, contained the inconvenient, and hidden the truths that would break nations if they ever reached daylight. Its handlers believe procedure can tame horror. Its archivists believe records can master monsters. Its masters believe every weapon can be stored, named and used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen long-buried secrets begin to surface, and Blackgarden opens itself to the one force it was never designed to withstand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaine is not a hero. He is not a saviour. He is the man history calls when clean hands are no longer enough. Across centuries, courts, ministries and hidden offices have used him, feared him, denied him and written him out of the official record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut some records do not stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the archive begins to reveal what it has kept, the line between preservation and control collapses. Old crimes return. Forgotten names demand witness. And the institution built to survive every scandal, every succession, every war and every corpse in its care discovers that some things cannot be locked away forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause some places do not keep the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey weaponise it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen C. Poore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798259492165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Stephen C. Poore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852943241471,"sku":"9798259492165","price":13.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackgarden-stephen-c-poore-9798259492165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}