The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Tyler Kyle doesn't believe in monsters.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>A washed-up thirty-year-old actor and reluctant cryptid investigator Tyler is used to playing the Scully to his best friend Josh's Mulder on their stupidly popular YouTube channel. But when Tyler receives previously unseen footage of the B movie bombshell mother who abandoned him eighteen years ago-footage linked to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness-the mystery is one conspiracy he's determined to investigate. The fact that following the scent gives Tyler an excuse to run away from the straight Josh whom he drunkenly made out with is just the cherry on the shit sundae.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But Echo Island isn't what it seems. Its eerily scenic veneer hides a twisted secret buried in its roots as a gay conversion camp and as Tyler retraces his mother's footsteps he discovers a supernatural connection between the residents and the island-one they seem to think Tyler and his mother share.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Even worse the footage of Tyler's mom came from someone on the island-a stalker whose obsessive fascination with both Tyler and Josh is about to make Tyler wish he hadn't gone this one alone. Puppeteered by his stalker searching for his mother and debating whether it's possible to queerbait yourself Tyler comes to realize that it doesn't matter so much whether you believe in monsters if they believe in you.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>THE ERSTWHILE TYLER KYLE is an adult horror comedy for fans of GHOST FILES BUZZFEED UNSOLVED and TWIN PEAKS.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Content warnings available on Steve Westenra's website (see Goodreads Profile).</span></p>