Book of the Month
The NOVEMBER Featured Book Of The Month Is:
Going to The Six by A.C. Hessenauer
On Lake Superior, some wrecks never rest.
When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four–person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka—a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior—he believes he’s chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger.
Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen’s own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two timelines: the ill-fated expedition, and the haunted present. Just as the record fractures, so too does Owen’s grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel.
Locals whisper of an old superstition—six signs that come before a person loses their mind. Did the crew uncover a secret buried with the Keuka? Or are Owen’s memories a labyrinth of guilt, grief, and madness?
A story of truth versus memory, the collapse of time, and the thin seam between reality and delusion, Going to the Six drags the reader down into the depths—where silence presses in, light cannot reach, and dread waits patiently in the dark.
👀 The Twisted Retreat Exclusive Edition includes:
-Redesigned dust jacket with foiling and spot gloss by @ruthannaevanshorrors
-Faux-leather hardcover with foiling details by @veronicalexgm
-Stenciled edges by Jefrian Syahm
-Endpages by @mothra_studio and @daydreamstd_
-Signed by the author
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE MONTH IS:
The Patron Saint of White Menageries by Lauren T. Davila
In her debut magical-realism collection The Patron Saint of White Menageries, Pushcart-nominated author Lauren T. Davila cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams.
In a sticky diner, a waitress fits wisps of cloud into coffee mugs, trying to solve her patrons' problems. A motherless girl defies her father's rules, rubbing fish scales from her eyes and learning her mother's half-remembered Spanish. Spectral ballerinas haunt alleys and dance studios, and red bumps rise on the arms of an assistant whose employer has been alive too long. The prophet Cassandra, exhausted from reincarnating and never being believed, tries one last time to escape her fate.
👀 The Twisted Retreat Exclusive Edition includes:
-Redesigned dust jacket with foil and gloss by @david_gardias_designs
-Hardcover with foiling by The Cover Designer
-Illustrated endpages by Yassine Sey and Ayan Colorscape
-Watercolor stenciled edges by Daria Kul
-Signed by the author
Book 2 is only in the full box