Elephant Blue: Book One of Blue Seven Mainline

Think ‘House of Leaves’ if it cared about you. Think ‘IT’ if it broke reality. This is a literary horror novel about a boy who can't find his sister.After going off his antidepressants and finding his girlfriend in someone else's lap, recently clean heroin addict, Ezra Luca, spirals into a dark abyss. Haunted by the enigmatic figure known as the Dark Stranger, Ezra's life takes a surreal turn when he discovers cryptic messages and symbols everywhere he goes that beckon him to the mysterious Oblivion Tree. Worried his mental illness, dormant all these years, is threatening to consume him again, Ezra considers using heroin to cope.Ezra calls his sister, Noah, his favorite person in the world, and his sole comfort aside from drugs in such situations, only to find she is missing.As he navigates a haze of drugs and fragmented memories, Ezra's quest to save his sister from an unknown fate becomes a race against the disintegration of his mind.With the haunting presence of seven spectral figures, the Smiley Seven, each representing a different color of the Rainbow, Ezra must dig into his past relapses and hallucinations to separate illusion from reality. Will he be able to find Noah in this labyrinth of mental illness, or will the Dark Stranger consume them both? Read more