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Dark Effect: Volume 1

Prospect Ridge is running out of luck and light. When the first dark interval hits, lanterns dim, ink fades, and written truth refuses to hold. The town calls it a glitch. The preacher calls it judgment. The miners call it a lie that fattens the powerful.

Elias Cutter, a railroad scout with ghosts on his map, and Clara Wynne, a telegraph engineer who refuses to look away, trace the intervals to a sealed chamber beneath the ridge, an ancient brass-and-crystal engine that feeds on records and witnesses. In Prospect Ridge, memory survives. Proof does not.

Dark Effect: Volume 1 is lantern-lit frontier horror: dust, dread, and a town eating its own paper trail. When reality stops leaving receipts, courage is what you can carve deep enough to last.