{"product_id":"the-beacon-year-matthew-petchinsky-9798295682964","title":"The Beacon Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne year ago, a signal was sent from the basement of the Briar Hollow Museum of the Unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow something has answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the anniversary of that signal approaches, strange disturbances begin spreading across Briar Hollow, Texas. Small gravity shifts lift loose stones from the ground. Shadows move in directions the sun cannot explain. Predators gather along the tree line as if answering a call no human can hear. Rowan, Maeve, Clay, and Evelyn know the pattern-because they started it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen dusk arrives, the pulse returns stronger than ever. Streets warp, the air thickens, and the sky above Briar Hollow fractures into an impossible antler-shaped constellation. What once haunted a house now claims the entire town. The Thorned Witness has risen beyond the museum walls, and its presence bends gravity, flesh, and thought itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs townspeople begin to fall under the influence of the Harvester-an intelligence that can inhabit human bodies to expand the spreading fractures-Rowan makes a choice that could condemn them all. Standing beneath a sky that no longer belongs to Earth, he refuses the Witness's territorial claim aloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut some things do not accept refusal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Briar Hollow may already belong to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Petchinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295682964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Apophis Enterprises LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Matthew Petchinsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665298297087,"sku":"9798295682964","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beacon-year-matthew-petchinsky-9798295682964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}