Tome

The Juniper Series

De: Ross Jeffery

Narrado por: Carl Douglas

The Bram Stoker Award-nominated Tome

Another dark chapter in the history of Juniper unfolds….

Juniper Correctional, jokingly abbreviated to JC, a dark jewel in the crown of the godawful American prison system, where the very worst of Juniper rot for life sentences that seem to stretch forever. In this hell-on-earth, it’s hard to tell most days who is worse: the inmates or the corrupt guards that enact the will of the monomaniacal Warden Fleming. Fleming is a fallen star, a once bright-minded leader who turned the prison around, now hiding a terrible secret eating him away from the inside, a secret he’ll do anything to cover up. But Fleming has problems, problems that threaten to unveil his secret.

There is a killer among those housed at Juniper Correctional. Inmates keep turning up dead, murdered in ungodly ways, but nobody knows how or why. The only thing that connects them is a nameless book from the prison’s library. However, there is one ray of light: Frank. Frank isn’t like the other guards. Frank still sees the good in people and is trying to make a difference, to save those souls he can from the darkness in their own hearts.

What Frank doesn’t realize, however, is that the darkness is real, and he is about to see its true power….

©2020, 2022 Ross Jeffery (P)2023 Ross Jeffery

So unsettling

I can not praise this book enough, it has all the right ingredients to make an evil, uncomfortable book.
The story is so dark and foreboding, creating a mood that is just as much of a character as any of the people are. The atmosphere crushes any happiness leaving a worrisome disconcerting feeling.
Tome is a supernatural story about a haunted/possessed artifact in a prison. It is a evil vs. good story and there is so much evil compared to the small shining light of good. It is such a well crafted story, really gets its hooks into you and drags you along as you scream for sunshine and fresh air.
Reading Tome is like watching a horror movie without any soundtrack. It is unnerving. It feels wrong. However with Tome, occasionally someone hammers down on a piano key and holds it there. High note, low note, it doesn’t make a difference, all that matters is there is no warning and how the note (words) reverberate through your body leaving you shaking.
Welcome to Juniper Corrections, welcome to Tome.

I just want to add that Ross Jeffery has included nods to indie authors Michael Clark, Gemma Amor, Laurel Hightower, and Joshua Marcella by either naming them or their book titles in the prison library. I love the support the horror community has for each other.