Annihilating the Five Elements: Ashes of the Old Days, A Journal

A new author, so the pacing is a little slow at first! 1932, the New England coast. The decaying town of Innsmouth is like swollen, rotten wood, its inhuman emptiness showing through the fog and deathly silence. Private detective Sarah Watley, a battlefield ghost haunted by nightmares of the deep, travels to this cursed land to investigate a blasphemous wax seal that has resurfaced in the world. The residents have fleshy fins behind their ears and vertical pupils hidden in their eyes. The air reeks of something more putrid than death. Moving nightmares breed in the inn rooms, while strange markings pointing toward the stars are carved into the charred wood of the ruins. The bloody memories of Providence Harbor from three years ago follow Sarah like a shadow. The Deep Ones’ whispers ring clear in the salty sea wind. They never left. Time is rotting, and allies are changing. The only light is a desperate officer struggling at the edge of the abyss, still gripping his badge. On the rocks of Storm Cape, an apocalyptic ritual to summon an ancient evil god draws near with the full-moon tide! Before her sanity completely collapses, Sarah must face the roar of the behemoth from the deep and the mocking laughter of the God of Chaos. A war between gods tears the world apart, and sacrifice kindles a faint light. Clutching her bloodstained badge and the terrible “truth,” Sarah escapes with her life, believing she has glimpsed the end of the darkness... She was wrong. The true horror is far greater than the behemoths of the deep or the God of Chaos. When the final veil is lifted, everything she has endured, fear, sacrifice, battle, even her brief victory, will be given a chilling, earth-shattering ultimate answer. That answer will make the abyss of Innsmouth seem insignificant... The truth behind the annihilation of the Five Elements begins in these ashes of the Old Ones.