Dark moody 1976 GMC RV parked on a foggy two-lane country road at twilight, low headlights illuminating wet asphalt and tall pines
Dark moody 1976 GMC RV parked on a foggy two-lane country road at twilight, low headlights illuminating wet asphalt and tall pines
The Road Saga

The Palm Beach Chronicles (Books 1–27)

Follow Caleb, Miles, and Dex Wade aboard a 1976 GMC RV across an eerie, hidden America in search of their missing aunt Janet.

Volume One

The Initial Journey

From a burned-out Tennessee homestead to Nashville studios and midnight diners on forgotten highways.

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3

The World Before the Road

The Session Player

The Honey Trap

Caleb Wade arrives to find his aunt Janet missing and his childhood home burned to the studs. He and his brothers Miles and Dex find one thing spared: a packed 1976 GMC RV left running, marking their last ordinary night for a long time.

In Nashville, the Palm Beach parks outside a Music Row studio where a producer's contracts drain something vital from every artist who signs. Beside a guarded session singer named Lyric, the Wades learn that not every monster wears fangs.

A 3 AM diner with a packed parking lot on a Tuesday hides a predatory force feeding on regulars for a decade. Underneath the owner's easy hospitality lies a comfort the Wade brothers must decide whether to tear away.

Volume Two

Into the Deep

Subterranean anomalies, haunted highways, and hollowed souls testing the boundaries of family loyalty.

Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7

The Hollow Between Worlds

A Quiet Thanksgiving

Road Hazard

Static

Deep inside Mammoth Cave, a tour group vanishes into an unmapped passage. As Dex feels something reaching for him, the family uncovers the first proof aunt Janet is still alive—and nearly loses everything reaching her.

Seeking a peaceful holiday after the cave, something living inside the RV pantry has other plans. A small, stubborn nuisance turns dinner prep into chaos in the gentlest yet most vital chapter for the family.

Four fatal crashes on a Missouri highway lead the Wades to a roadside mechanic who can hear what's wrong with their RV and the road itself. A sinister connection proves some jobs come looking for you.

In Memphis, three bodies land on a morgue table with intact but empty hearts. The investigation leads from the medical examiner to a revival tent harvesting souls, forcing Caleb to choose between speed and righteousness.

Volume Three

Winter Static

A Kentucky post office, a Florida Christmas, New Mexico wildfire smoke, and a highway that shouldn't exist carry the Palm Beach into the heart of winter.

Book 8

Book 9

Book 10

Book 11

Dead Letters

A Florida Christmas

Burn Scar

The Route That Isn't There

A Kentucky postmaster keeps a locked drawer of letters from her daughter, dead for eleven years, each one arriving with warnings about tragedies that haven't happened yet. Dex is the only one who can hear the ghost clearly, and together they trace a hereditary curse riding family heirlooms through town before it claims its next mark.

Janet's old phone rings inside the RV, and Dex picks up to find his estranged father on the line with a problem he won't explain. The Wades roll into a neon-lit Florida Christmas to find their parents' social circle stalked by something with a taste for blood, and Sloane delivers the diagnosis dry as ever: a vampire.

In the smoke-hazed hills of northern New Mexico, a wildfire jumper named Ember is about to be charged with arson for fires she set on purpose, burning out something far worse than she is. The Wades pose as consultants to clear her name and find a lab-grown predator hunting hikers through the flames, one that Ember's fire discipline is the only thing built to stop.

A stretch of Oklahoma highway shows up on old maps and nowhere else, and the Palm Beach steers toward it like she's been waiting for the excuse. Inside the corridor, clocks slip and the fuel gauge lies, and Dex recognizes the same wrongness that swallowed Janet's trail at Mammoth Cave, close enough that Sloane starts taking notes.

Volume Four

The Long Way Back

Montana wolf country and an Iowa cornfield give way to a stolen signal in Oklahoma City and the frozen lake where Janet has been hidden all along.

Book 12

Book 13

Book 14

Book 15

Pack Law

Scarecrow Season

The Signal and the Noise

The Cartographer's Error

A Montana town blames a string of livestock killings on the wolves, and the Wades roll in ready to hunt the wrong thing entirely. Scout, a mail carrier holding the line alone against a skin-walker wearing a wolf's shape, spends the episode proving them wrong before she accepts backup she didn't know she needed.

Scarecrows are moving overnight in an Iowa farm county, edging closer to the road until a farmhand turns up dead and posed like one of them. What looks like a hoax investigation unravels into a dying farmer's grief given shape and purpose, an entity that worked exactly as intended and now can't stop.

Every television in one Oklahoma City neighborhood starts broadcasting the same footage: ordinary lives, twelve hours before they happen. A hijacked weather station and a meteorologist named Storm lead the family to a stolen signal looping through Janet's own burned-out house, and to the first real lead on where she's been taken since Mammoth Cave.

A Minnesota canoe outfitter hands out maps with one lake missing from every official survey, and the people who find it come back quiet, short three days of memory. Terra recognizes the geometry from the worst night of the season, and inside the water they find Janet, thinned down and immediately furious that nobody taught the ritual properly without her.

Volume Five

Open Roads Again

With Janet home, the family threads through Kansas farmland, an Atlanta job fair, the Outer Banks, and a Savannah estate that refuses to let anyone leave.

Book 16

Book 17

Book 18

Book 19

What the Corn Remembers

The Job Fair

Saltwater

Inheritance

Crop-duster photos over a Kansas county show fields growing in patterns too precise to be accidental, glyphs matching rituals older than the state itself. Terra and Sloane trace a stalled land-spirit trying to speak through the harvest, one that's been carrying a stranger's messages for decades without anyone asking its permission.

An Atlanta job fair boasts a hundred percent acceptance rate and zero resignations, and Janet goes still the moment she sees the branding. Cascade, a stylist harvested strand by strand to anchor supernatural contracts, helps the family burn the master scroll and walks away owing her hair to no one but herself.

On the Outer Banks, a marine researcher named Oona is missing her sealskin and bargaining with a collector who knows exactly what he's holding over her. The retrieval turns into a trafficking case, a warehouse of stolen leverage taken from supernaturals up and down the coast, and a chase through tidal channels to get her name back.

A Savannah attorney's email drags the Palm Beach into a probate fight where the house itself refuses to let anyone leave. Its wards have outlived the practitioner who built them, and its archive holds a file labeled with Janet's name and a date that predates her birth, one she won't explain no matter how Sloane and Miles press.

Volume Six

Old Debts

Memphis, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Delta collect on cases the Wades thought they'd already closed.

Book 20

Book 21

Book 22

Book 23

Cold Case, Hot Trail

Secondhand Soul

The Escort Job

Route 66 Museum

A call from Nadia Khalil pulls the family back to Memphis, where a forty-year-old murder has just claimed an identical new victim. Justice, a revenant bound to solving the original killing, was supposed to fade once the case closed, and hunting down what's still copying it forces Caleb to reckon with building a life around a single wrong.

A tourist vanishes into a rooftop speakeasy that isn't on any map of the French Quarter, and the trail leads to Juni, a tarot reader guarding rooftops that belong to her alone. He wasn't the target. The real prize was Juni, and unwinding the trap means exposing a dealer running stolen fragments of supernatural essence through back-room fortune parlors.

A hitchhiking ghost in decades-old clothing flags down the Palm Beach on Highway 61, the only vehicle with enough weight to notice her. A highway-widening project relocated her grave without telling her, and getting her home again uncovers a demolition company clearing burial ground after burial ground along a route the family has already seen marked.

Exhibits keep moving after closing at a small Route 66 museum, postcards and mannequins shifted just enough to notice. What looks like a poltergeist turns out to be a shelf of real haunted artifacts, donated as prestige inventory and quietly used as cold storage for someone else's field debris, and the family spends one long night stealing them back for the right reasons.

Volume Seven

The Threshold

New Mexico fire, an Arizona canyon, a sabotaged interstate, and a season finale that costs the family everything they thought they understood.

Book 24

Book 25

Book 26

Book 27

Blaze

Canyon Hymn

Highway Median

Threshold

Fire-aspected beings around Taos are going quiet one by one, leaving cold ash behind, and Blaze, a glassblower built from flame, is the last one still standing. A biotech facility believes it has tamed something primordial, and containing what it actually unleashes costs Caleb his car and leaves Blaze holding knowledge people would kill to own.

A northern Arizona canyon road is said to sing when the wind hits right, and tourists who stop to listen don't always come back. A road spirit meant to protect travelers has curdled into something that traps them instead, holding them safe and unaging while the world moves on without them.

Highway medians across New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle are unnaturally lush even in drought, and the ranchland beside them keeps dying back. A hidden crew of land-spirits has been tending supernatural boundary lines disguised as landscaping for decades, and someone has been quietly undoing their work, one buried sigil at a time, to open a corridor for something worse.

Every thread of the season points back to the Appalachians, and the Palm Beach finally stops pretending otherwise. Beneath a shuttered rest area outside Asheville, the family finds the machine tying it all together, and shutting it down costs them a piece of the world they thought they understood, then hands them a second vehicle nobody ordered.

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