SPOTLESS

By: Hawklestat

In the sweltering summer of 1974, Indiana is dying politely.

The lawns are the colour of old cardboard, the air is thick with the resignation of the Nixon era, and Mark Higgins is just trying to sell vacuum cleaners. But for Joann, a woman whose life is as frayed as the edges of her Kessler Avenue home, order isn't just a preference-it's a survival mechanism.

Working a soul-crushing job at an industrial warehouse, Joann lives in the shadow of a philosophy passed down through a fractured bloodline: the belief that cleanliness isn't next to godliness-it is the return of an object to its essential, perfect form.

When a chance encounter with a door-to-door salesman triggers a psychological fracture, Joann begins a harrowing transformation. Guided by the cold, commanding "lessons" of a spectral father figure, she embarks on a mission to scrub away the disorder of the world.

From the sterile aisles of a vacuum parts warehouse to the dark, silent basements of Middle America, Spotless is a descent into a mind obsessed with the absolute. It is a story of heavy machinery, domestic nightmares, and the terrifying realisation that some stains can only be removed by erasing the surface entirely.

Haunting, clinical, and steeped in a 1970s atmosphere, Spotless is a psychological thriller that asks, 'How far would you go to reach a state of perfect order?'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H21DDXSB
• ISBN13: 9798197078728
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"