After The Locks Turn

<p>Darius Cole didn't come to Ravenhill Mall for ghost stories-he came to disappear. But the night shift isn't just quiet... it's wrong.</p><p>What begins as a second-chance job quickly descends into a waking nightmare. The mall is rotting from the inside. Hallways loop endlessly. Reflections don't match. Old security tapes rewind themselves-and show things that never happened.</p><p>Then there's the metallic smell.</p><p>As Darius digs deeper into the mall's buried past he uncovers a government file labeled Site-17 warnings scribbled in abandoned notebooks and footage that shows something moving just behind him-something that shouldn't exist.</p><p>Haunted by grief and hunted by whatever watches from the dark Darius must decide what's real what's memory and what the mall wants from him before it's too late.</p><p><em>After The Locks Turn</em> is a slow-burn psychological horror novel set in the Rupture Events universe. Perfect for fans of <strong>House of Leaves</strong> <strong>Silent Hill</strong> or <strong>The Backrooms</strong> this book blends atmospheric dread with shifting architecture unreliable memory and the slow collapse of reality.</p>