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1:13 AM is the jaw snapping shut. 1:14 AM means you survived the bite.
Deputy Darius Vance wanted a safe suburban life for his wife and three kids when they moved to Whisper Pines, Georgia. Instead, he found a town that isn't a place at all-it's a living, breathing predator.
Every night, Darius wakes up at exactly 1:14 AM from identical nightmares of a melting reality. His wife blames stress, but when a local teenager is found dead-his face a featureless mask of peeled pine bark-the horror bleeds into daylight.
Darius uncovers the town's merciless arithmetic: anything after 1:14 AM is a safe asylum, but anytime before it, you are a target. The forest holds "The Listeners," entities that steal human voices to lure families into the dark.
As a violent blood moon rises, Darius races against a breaking clock to save his family from an organism designed to digest them all.
A reality-bending cosmic horror where the soil is hungry, and the rules are absolute.