The Gym: BOOK III: Pride & Punishment

By Jason Buss

In another life, they called him Detroit's Prettiest Little Heartbreaker.

Now the ones who helped destroy him are learning what survived.

James Drake has spent months transforming himself into something colder, sharper, and impossible to control. Beneath Detroit's glittering nightlife and abandoned industrial cathedrals, he begins executing a meticulous campaign of punishment against the people who fed on Jimmy Davidson's suffering and walked away untouched.

Edward Davidson
Jeff Burling
Danny Reeves
Michael Davidson
Karen Reeves
Sarah Greene
Joey Reeves

One by one, old wounds reopen. Old sins surface. And the deeper James descends into vengeance, the more Detroit itself seems to bend around him like a city recognizing one of its own monsters.

But revenge has a way of awakening hungers that cannot easily be contained.

As The Gym tightens its grip and impossible forces move behind the machinery beneath 123 Industrial Way, James finds himself caught between wrath and mercy, between the terrible precision of punishment and the fragile humanity still preserved by the people who refuse to abandon him completely.

Especially Christopher Flynn.

Because even after everything he has become, someone is still waiting for James to come home.

And that may prove more dangerous than revenge itself.

THE GYM
BOOK III: PRIDE & PUNISHMENT
A queer psychological horror novel about vengeance, transformation, family, and the unbearable cost of becoming exactly what the world demanded.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H2P5PVLR
• ISBN13: 9798198139091
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"