The Audubon Protocol

Marcus Bell has lived beside Audubon Forest long enough to know when his neighborhood is wrong.

Lately, neighbors are describing memories that were never theirs. Children talk about places they have never visited, in detail they should not possess. And beneath the trees, a tunnel appears on no map.

What Marcus finds below is older than the neighborhood, older than the city, and still alive: something in the water that can hold a human memory outside a human mind.

It kept what happened here. All of it.

Now a company with very deep pockets knows the discovery exists and is moving fast to own it. To protect their homes, Marcus and his neighbors must drag the truth into daylight before it becomes private property — while the thing in the water keeps spreading.

It remembers fear. It remembers violence. And it has been remembering for far longer than anyone suspects.

Southern Gothic dread, ecological horror, and institutional conspiracy collide beneath the streets and forests of southwest Atlanta.

Some places are haunted. Audubon Forest remembers.