Architect Mallory Caldwell arrives in Briar, Texas expecting a routine assignment. The town needs an evaluation of its aging courthouse tower. A simple structural inspection. A few photographs. A short report.
Briar greets her with silence.
The streets sit almost empty. The buildings appear carefully arranged, as if someone designed the town to follow rules no one explained. At the center of it all stands the courthouse tower, its clock permanently frozen at eight-oh-seven.
Mallory's job requires attention to structure, symmetry, and hidden flaws. Briar offers too many of them.
Doors lead to corridors that should not exist. Conversations echo memories that never happened. And the tower itself seems to change depending on when she enters.
The longer Mallory stays, the clearer one truth becomes.
Briar is holding something in place.
Something tied to the tower.
Something that has been waiting for someone who understands how buildings work.
And once Mallory sees the design beneath the town, leaving Briar may no longer be possible.
Perfect for readers who enjoy eerie small-town mysteries, cerebral science fiction, architectural thrillers, and stories in the spirit of The Twilight Zone and Wayward Pines, The Tower at Eight O'Seven blends atmospheric suspense with unsettling discoveries that twist reality itself.