House of Midnight

When a storm drags siblings Happy and Joshua from the sea and spits them onto a bone-white beach, they think they've survived the worst. Then the mist begins to move. The island is alive or something older, hungrier, wearing the island as a mask. It feeds on memory, on guilt, on love itself. By night, it shapes the mist into the voices of the dead and the faces you most long-or fear-to see. Step outside the protective lines, and you are gone. Among the ragged survivors, they find Noah: a once-famous actor who vanished at the height of his career, now a prophet of geometry and survival. His estranged son Weslin draws symbols in the dirt with the precision of a monk scripting scripture-proofs and patterns that seem to hold the darkness back. And Joshua, fragile but gifted, may be exactly what the island wants most. Every dusk, the mist gathers. Every night, it hunts. And every survivor must choose: cling to rituals that barely hold the terror at bay or risk everything to defy a hunger as old as nightmares. On Nightmare Island, the greatest danger isn't the mist outside the circle. It's what it knows about you inside it.