Some places are haunted.Others are watching to see who looks away.Bracken Court is a dead-end street where nothing ever happens-until a woman is found brutally killed in her own bathroom, her body twisted in ways no human hand could manage. The police find no intruder. The neighbors find excuses. And beneath the pavement, something begins to stir.When siblings Lena and Noah Maris realize the murder is tied to a man who drowned nearby months earlier-a death everyone heard, everyone noticed, and no one stopped-they uncover a horrifying truth: the dead of Bracken Court do not haunt the living out of rage.They haunt them out of memory.As apparitions rise from mirrors, floors, and waterlogged ground, the dead force the living to relive the moments they chose silence over action. Each manifestation is more violent than the last. Each witness is closer to becoming the next victim.But Bracken Court is not a story about saving the dead.It is about stopping the next death before it happens.As the horror spreads beyond the street and into the wider world, Lena and Noah discover that the curse does not follow places-it follows hesitation. Survival comes at a cost: once you learn to recognize the moment before violence, you can never unsee it. And if you look away again, the dead will remember.Bracken Court is a standalone supernatural horror novel that blends relentless dread with emotional realism-graphic, disturbing, and deeply human. With multiple on-page deaths and only two true survivors, it asks a terrifying question: What if the worst monsters aren't the dead who rise...but the living who wait too long to act?