Maiko Moans

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They came to create music. Instead they may be unmaking themselves.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Three musicians retreat to a remote house in rural Japan hoping to channel inspiration into new tracks. But what emerges isn't music-it's something far stranger. From the moment they arrive tensions simmer: the volatile chemistry between Maiko Mikami the enigmatic lead singer and her two foreign male bandmates spirals from artistic friction into a dangerous obsession.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maiko's voice-sometimes a song sometimes a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>moan</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-cuts through the silence echoing with fragmented memories and creeping unease. As the days unfold the air grows heavy with mistrust and desire the forest presses closer and the house itself seems to pulse with an ancient predatory hunger.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Are they losing their minds-or awakening something far darker?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Claustrophobic sensual and unrelenting</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> this literary thriller plunges readers into a fever dream of psychosexual dread and artistic unravelling. With prose as torrential as a typhoon and tension that tightens like a noose it's a descent into madness that leads only one way: to a finale as inevitable as it is horrific.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>O'Sullivan deftly dials up the tension in this lyrical thriller until there's nothing left to do but scream.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> -Brian McAuley author of CURSE OF THE REAPER</span></p>