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What the tide brings back.
Strange weather moving through the ordinary world — and the tide brings back things that should have stayed buried. — from Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood
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Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood
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Some places are not abandoned. They are waiting.
Out in the Chesapeake Bay, Bloodsworth Island sits behind warning signs, military history, and decades of rumors. Most people know better than to go near it. The ones who do come back with strange stories. Missing time. Bad dreams. Wounds that will not heal.
Some never come back at all.
When Bethany Reyes begins chasing the truth behind a series of impossible sightings, she finds herself pulled toward the island’s black water and buried past. April Corrigan has her own reasons for getting too close. Elena is following a trail of disappearances, corrupted evidence, and whispers no one in authority wants explained.
They are all looking for answers.
Bloodsworth gives them something else.
Beneath the marsh grass and tidal rot, something old has survived. Something hungry. Something that does not simply kill what it touches. It changes it. Flesh, memory, loyalty, desire — all of it can be reshaped. And once the island marks you, leaving may not mean escape.
Because Bloodsworth is not just a place.
It is an infection.
Bloodsworth: Tidal Brood is a slow-burn descent into coastal horror, conspiracy, body transformation, and survival — where every answer opens a deeper wound and the tide brings back things that should have stayed buried.