The Briarwick Ledger

Briarwick is a town that relocates itself whenever it feels threatened.
Which is often.

Twenty‑five‑year‑old Nyx Grimm returns home after eight years of running from her past, her family, and the suspiciously sentient mold that tried to unionize in her last apartment. She expects awkward reunions and maybe a passive‑aggressive casserole.

Instead, she finds the town has shifted into the treeline, the sky has a new scar across it, and her family's forbidden ledger - wrapped in thorned wire - has started whispering again.

Nyx has always attracted the strange.
Cryptids stalk her.
Spirits whisper to her.
Humanoid creatures follow her like she's a lighthouse for nightmares.

She never knew why.
Now she has to.

When she accidentally opens the ledger, something ancient wakes up - something that remembers her, wants her, and claims she owes it a debt written long before she was born.

The forest is watching.
The shadows are hungry.
And Briarwick is preparing for something it hasn't faced in centuries.

Nyx must unravel the truth about her bloodline, the ledger's appetite, and the creature that calls itself The Archivist of Lost Children - all while trying not to die, lose her mind, or accidentally flirt with a monster.

The ledger keeps records.
And it always collects.

Written by: Lynn Hammond