Thistle Watchtower

BLURB — The Vertex Rune Blackridge is a city that watches. A city built over tunnels, ruins, and secrets that never stay buried. When ex investigator Dante Vilar finds a black ring engraved with a shifting geometric symbol, the world bends around him. The ring awakens violent echoes — fragments of memory, distortions of space, and glimpses of a presence waiting on the other side. A girl has vanished inside a corridor that should not exist. A powerful man demands answers. And the city reacts to Dante as if it recognizes him. Guided by a man who understands the Holloway house without trusting it, Dante uncovers the truth behind the symbol: a vertex, a fracture where memory, intention, and presence converge. Crossing it is impossible. Returning is worse. But when Dante crosses and comes back, he does not return alone. A fragment of the missing girl follows him — incomplete, fragile, and bound to the heat of the ring. Now Dante is the first person capable of bringing something back from t