The Clockwork Harvester

Every hundred years, the gears turn. Every hundred years, fifteen people die.In the fog-shrouded town of Ashthorne Hollow, a terrible secret has been buried for three centuries. When historian John Ross and statistician Nova Callahan discover that the local legend of “The Clockwork Harvester” is horrifyingly real, they uncover a conspiracy that reaches back to the town’s founding—and a machine that should not exist.Built by mysterious colonists in 1723, the Harvester is a towering brass automaton that selects its victims with mathematical precision, harvesting organs with surgical efficiency. As Halloween 2023 approaches and the centennial harvest begins, Nova and her allies must decipher an impossible algorithm, fortify against an unstoppable foe, and make devastating choices about who lives and who dies.But the deeper they dig, the more they realize: the machine isn’t just killing people. It’s collecting them. And what lives inside its clockwork heart is far more terrifying than gears and brass.