The Velvet Invitation

By Matthew Petchinsky

At the luxurious Lone Cypress Grand perched along the storm-lashed Texas coast, a romantic 1980s throwback night becomes the opening move in something far more sinister.

Rowan and Maeve arrive expecting a quiet evening-vintage films, jazz music, and a rare moment of peace. But during a private screening of The Blue Lagoon (1980), they encounter a mysterious couple whose presence subtly bends the air around them. The strangers are charming, observant, and impossibly alluring... yet something about them feels wrong.

As the night unfolds through candlelit bars and moonlit rooftop pools, Rowan begins detecting gravitational distortions whenever the couple draws close. Maeve notices something even stranger-reflections that don't match reality, eyes that hold an inverted sky, and a constellation shaped like antlers glowing beneath the water.

When a hotel guard becomes violently possessed by an ancient force known only as The Harvester, the illusion of romance shatters. Blood spills across marble floors, the sky fractures above the Gulf, and the Lone Cypress Grand reveals itself as a dimensional fault line.

Now Rowan and Maeve must face a terrifying truth: the seductive strangers are not guests-they are invitations.

And something ancient beyond the stars has just learned their names.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSXSGBL4
• ISBN13: 9798295720048
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"