In Bellweather, the warning is simple:

Lock your doors before midnight.
Salt your thresholds.
Never answer a familiar voice from the dark.

Clara Vance arrives in the isolated mountain town searching for her missing brother, Daniel. But Bellweather is not a place that gives up its secrets easily. Its streets are too quiet, its church bell rings when no hand touches it, and something pale crawls across the rooftops after midnight.

Clara soon discovers that her family name is tied to the town's oldest and most terrible bargain. Beneath the cemetery, under the church, through root-filled tunnels and across a black lake, real monsters are waiting.

Hollows steal voices from the living.
Root-hounds hunt through the graves.
Mirrorborn rise from the water wearing familiar faces.
And behind the first door, an ancient hunger remembers Vance blood.

With the help of Elias Rusk, a wounded local man with secrets of his own; Deputy Marla Keene, who knows the old rules too well; and Jonah, a terrified survivor whose humor hides unexpected courage, Clara must find Daniel before Bellweather claims them both.

But in this town, doors do not simply open.

They bite.

They Crawl After Midnight: The First Door is Book One of the Bellweather Nightmares series, a dark fantasy horror romance about family, blood, buried bargains, physical monsters, and the terrifying cost of answering the wrong voice after midnight.