{"product_id":"a-brilliant-spring-9798614224424","title":"A Brilliant Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. M. Lehsten\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the small town of Hammond, intelligence blooms overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo does violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a genetically altered rose begins to spread through the community, the effects are subtle at first-sharper thinking, heightened perception, an unsettling sense of clarity. Then the crime starts. Brutal. Personal. Escalating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Landon only wanted to finish his father's life's work: a luminous flower that defied nature and bloomed longer than any rose ever should. Camelia Standdard is sent to investigate the town-wide anomaly, certain the government's theory is deeply malignant nonsense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are both wrong-just not in the way either of them expects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the rose does not affect everyone equally.\u003cbr\u003eIt chooses.\u003cbr\u003eIt waits.\u003cbr\u003eAnd it does not let go without consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Hammond fractures under the weight of brilliance sharpened into cruelty, Camelia discovers that whatever the rose awakened in her may never fully recede-and Marc learns that creation carries debts that cannot be paid with good intentions alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Brilliant Spring\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark, intimate horror novella about beauty as a catalyst, intelligence as a weapon, and the quiet terror of discovering that improvement does not mean salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReader note: \u003c\/b\u003e This story contains violence, psychological horror, and disturbing themes. It is not a comfort read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47596405194903,"sku":"9798614224424","price":585.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798614224424.webp?v=1774993634","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-brilliant-spring-9798614224424","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}