Curse of the Unborn

<p><strong>A dream beach property becomes a battlefield between the living and something older than memory.</strong><br><strong>When Kael and his friends unearth an ancestral grief bound beneath a lone tree the island fights back - and nothing will be the same.</strong></p><p>They came for sun and sand and a fresh start: Kael Maya Rafe Jessa and Sarah laughing on the road buying acreage with a lonely tree and a frayed warning. But a shuttered shop a string of talismans and a restless shaman named Bayani hint at a history the land will not forget. Small missteps become sharp omens - a rat in a pouch a branch that falls like a warning an impossible light over the stream - until the atmosphere itself tightens and old voices press into their heads.</p><p>As the island's story surfaces the friends find themselves stalked by visions possessions and unnameable things that move at the edges of fires and tents. Jessa's mind is invaded; Rafe is nearly killed; Sarah's dreams of drowning become a terrifying reality. Bayani reveals the truth: a mad shaman named Talabasao bound a wrong to the roots of the beach tree - the remains of an unborn child used to weave a curse. The cords that once held the dark are fraying and waking what was buried comes with a terrible price.</p><p>Torn between flight and duty love and guilt the group must decide whether to run or finish what Bayani's great-grandfather began. Their choices lead to ritual sacrifice and a final confrontation on the sand beneath the lightning-silvered moon. In the end they bury what must be laid to rest - and the island answers them with both loss and a strange aching mercy.</p><p><em>Curse of the Unborn</em> is a deeply atmospheric folklore-infused supernatural horror about grief inherited sin and the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love. It blends intimate character drama with slow-building dread ancient ritual and a landscape that remembers every wrong.</p><p>Supernatural / folk horror • atmospheric character-driven emotionally raw</p><p><em>The dead remember. The land keeps its promises - and some promises demand repayment in blood. Will they pay the price or will the island collect it for them?</em></p>