{"product_id":"jersey-amy-wertz-9798257723940","title":"Jersey: The Compound That Reveals the Jersey Devil","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlie Vance has spent fifteen years reducing the worst things in the world to chemistry. As a forensic analyst for the DEA, he trusts what can be measured, cataloged, and explained. But when a new drug-known only as \u003ci\u003eJersey\u003c\/i\u003e-lands on his bench, it refuses to behave. The compound is impossibly pure. It has no origin, no classification, and no match in any database. Then the sample disappears from evidence-checked out under Charlie's own signature at a time he knows he wasn't there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs overdoses spread through the Pine Barrens, the survivors all describe the same impossible experience: a place beneath the trees, and something waiting there. Not hunting. Not moving. Watching. When Charlie begins to see it too-first in reflections, then at the edge of distance-he realizes the drug isn't causing hallucinations. It's removing a filter. It's letting people perceive something that has always been present... something tied to the land, the myth of the Jersey Devil, and a decades-old containment protocol that was never meant to fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulled into a hidden network that has been tracking-and limiting-those who can see, Charlie is forced to confront a truth that cannot be tested or contained. The more he understands the compound, the more it understands him. And as the line between observer and subject begins to collapse, Charlie must decide whether to stop the spread... or take the dose himself and cross the threshold completely-knowing that once you are seen, you are never unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJERSEY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003eis a literary horror thriller about perception as exposure, myth as environment, and the moment you realize the world has been looking at you your entire life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrue Detective\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fisherman\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Wertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257723940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Amy Wertz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172713341183,"sku":"9798257723940","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jersey-amy-wertz-9798257723940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}