Tempest Motel

At 666 Devil's Fork Road, the Tempest Motel waits for the desperate. By daylight, it's a rotting roadside ruin, forgotten by everyone except those who need it most. At night, the neon flickers back to life.Inside, the bargain is simple: Give up your soul for safekeeping, and receive twenty years of your deepest desire.No tricks.No lies.No unfairness.When Ben Maddox's father vanishes without explanation, Ben follows a trail of notebooks, missing persons, and impossible clocks back to the motel that has haunted his family for decades. There, he discovers the truth: His father made a bargain to save Ben's life. And that bargain never truly closed.With a woman searching for her lost sister, a ledger that records every debt, and an ancient structure beneath the motel that may be older than the bargains themselves, Ben must uncover what the Tempest really is — before the final account comes due. Because some debts can be transferred and some can be inherited. And some are still waiting to be collected.