The Bloom of Secrets

<p><strong>Book 2 of the Liminal Paradox series: <em>The Bloom of Secrets</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In Moonville beauty always has a price-and the soil remembers everything.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beth Hargrove's garden has always wilted in the shadow of Mr. Daniels'-a quiet old man with a perfect bloom and an even darker secret. Every year he wins the town's floral competition. Every year Beth stews in second place... until this year.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Beth sends her grandson Knox to spy on the neighbor's basement what he finds twists their lives into a nightmare of rot bone and blooming obsession. As Mr. Daniels offers help and Beth accepts with trembling hands her flowers begin to thrive-but so does something else. Something unnatural. Something hungry.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As paranoia grows the town sheriff vanishes people begin to whisper and the line between gardener and gravedigger starts to blur. Knox knows the truth... but in Moonville speaking up might just plant you in the ground.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Bloom of Secrets</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is the next chilling entry in the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Liminal Paradox</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> collection-a claustrophobic gothic horror about twisted neighbors cursed soil and the horrors we water with envy.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Perfect for fans of <em>Stranger Things</em> <em>Paper Girls</em> and Christopher Pike <strong><em>The Bloom of Secrets</em> is a synth-drenched suburban nightmare laced with paranoia nostalgia and the creeping dread that beauty always comes with a cost.</strong></p>