The Long Hour Time-bending Psychological a Psychological Mystery Where One Missing Hour Hides Crimes, Secrets, and a Reality That Refuses to Stay Still.

Some towns have secrets. Ashgrove has a cycle.For 138 years, the residents of Ashgrove have gathered during the long hour, the time between 3 and 4 AM when the church bell tolls and something ancient beneath the mountain demands to be fed. They’ve participated in ritual murder. They’ve selected victims. They’ve carved names into stone and spilled blood in darkness.And every morning, they’ve forgotten.Dr. Maya Reeves remembers. At thirteen, she witnessed her teacher’s murder during a ritual she wasn’t supposed to see. For fifteen years, she’s carried that memory alone while everyone else in town woke up with no recollection of what they’d done the night before. Now she’s returned to Ashgrove with a plan to break the cycle by contaminating the water supply and forcing the entire town to remember their crimes.But consciousness comes with a cost. As residents begin to recall 1,656 murders committed over more than a century, some choose suicide over living with their guilt. Others seek to restore the forgetting, arguing that comfortable lies are preferable to unbearable truths. And deep in the caves beneath Ashgrove, an ancient organism that has shaped human behavior for millennia is adapting to the disruption, learning, changing, and preparing to demonstrate that breaking cycles isn’t the same as ending them.Maya wanted justice. She wanted accountability. She wanted to save future generations from inheriting guilt they never chose.What she achieved was far more complicated.The Long Hour is a psychological horror novel about the cost of consciousness, the weight of collective guilt, and the impossible choices we face when breaking cycles that were never supposed to be broken. Perfect for readers who appreciate moral complexity, biological horror, and stories that refuse to provide easy answers.Content Warning: This novel contains detailed descriptions of ritual murder, suicide, psychological trauma, and the long-term effects of systematic violence. Reader discretion is strongly advised.