When Cole Donovan, Rebecca Holloway, and Nathan Graves take a wrong turn into the quiet mountain town of Thornwatch, they expect nothing more than a detour. But every road out leads them back to the same rusted welcome sign at the edge of town. As the sun sets differently each night and the townsfolk grow more familiar than they should be, the three friends realize Thornwatch isn't just isolated. It's holding them, and something in the surrounding peaks doesn't want them to leave.



Connor Hayes CH writes fiction that lingers in the space between the familiar and the deeply wrong — quiet towns with secrets, ordinary roads that don't behave the way they should. Drawing inspiration from folklore, isolation, and the fragile threads that hold people together under pressure.