The Elementals

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At Beldame, an isolated strip of Alabama coast cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian houses stand against advancing dunes. The McCrays and Savages, two Mobile families linked by marriage, have occupied two of them for generations; the third is abandoned, its rooms steadily filling with sand. After a funeral and amid an impending divorce, Luker McCray brings young India to the family retreat in search of quiet. Instead, India’s curiosity draws attention toward the empty house, where an unseen presence has already begun imagining their deaths. As grief, family tension, and summer lethargy deepen the isolation, the landscape itself seems predatory. The novel combines Southern Gothic family drama with supernatural horror rooted in heat, decay, and inherited silence.

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