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Brady Phoenix

Crime Thriller

Petals of Peril

July 1996

The sunflower fields at Chester Farms have been a popular attraction for decades. Families come from all over to visit the attractions that Gemma Chester and her late husband have worked on for most of their lives. What started as an idea has now grown into a true success. The achievements they had was something that Gemma has been proud to share the memories with her family.

Until she couldn't any longer.

Gemma's murder has put the family in shambles with many questions unanswered. Who killed Gemma Chester? What will happen to the farm? Some problems are better left buried in the sunflowers. The family is struggling, and it is just the start of their issues.

Charlotte Rollins hasn't felt like a part of the Chesters for most of her life. With the loss of her grandmother, Charlotte has to go through her grieving alone. What makes it worse is that one of the scarecrows has come to life, terrorizing the Chesters. Will the family make it through the weekend as the scarecrow picks apart the branches of the family tree?

Success can be quite deadly.

Will it take the entire family?

Horror

Cardinal Rules

The end of May approaches, and college is done for the spring semester. DJ plans to spend the summer reflecting on his traumatic childhood and trying to heal with relaxation. It isn't until his very close friend invites him to go with them for a getaway at their hometown's Pride party to live it up for the weekend. To help him feel comfortable, he invites his only family; his sister, Sierra.

At first, DJ enjoys making new friends and getting involved with the community. His tensions and anxieties melt away with the drag shows and brunches that lead up to the block party. His adventures slowly become interrupted by a stalker lurking around the festivities to torment him. It's not just any old stalker.

It's a cardinal!

One by one, guests go missing at the hands of the deranged killer. Can DJ save himself and his acquaintances before the masked cardinal takes their lives? Will this ride be canceled from all of the mysterious murders?

Cardinal Rules takes elements from '80s and '90s slasher horror, filled with blood, gore, and a little glitter. It's time to put pride back in murder!

Horror

Troll

Trying to fit in can be quite the challenge. It can be even harder with social media bringing out the best in people

Or worst.

People use their profiles to show their support for their friends and their passions. Others use it to hide behind a facade to speak their minds, no matter how it affects others.

One year after Nora Crispin's untimely passing, Wendy Benson found her fellow peers at Felton High School meeting their demise at the hands of someone who knows the identities behind their profiles. Someone knows they had a hand in Nora's death. Someone wants to make them pay.

They can't block anybody this time as someone is here to follow the profiles and their users to hold them accountable for their actions, and sign them off for good.

Troll takes the elements from 80s and 90s slashers with blood and gore, and a little bit of glitter.

Prepare to like this story…or else.

Horror

Nun Taken

In 1986, two boys cross paths at Griffwood Manor, a rehabilitation center for troubled youth. While their bond grows, something is watching. Lurking. Waiting.

20 years later, Sonya Frost, a lost girl who found trouble, is enrolled in Griffwood Manor, now under new management. She thought it would be easy. She thought she found the place to change herself for the better with the help of the nuns.

However, one of the sisters is different.

One of them has been stalking the teenagers.

One of them has been inflicting pain.

Will the teenagers become released of their troubles? Will they make it out of therapy alive?

Nun Taken takes the elements from 80s and 90s slashers with blood and gore, and a little bit of glitter.

Pray for protection. Their salvation is waiting.

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