Awakening: A Gory Horror Novel for Adults (Mother's Little Helpers, Book 1)

If it helps you find love and happiness, is it really so bad that it wants to kill and eat you? Rage Sutherland, an unemployed, foul-mouthed 30-year-old had never once made his dead parents proud – or tried to for that matter. Instead, he lives happily in his consequence-free forever-adolescence in the house his parents left him. Down the hill behind his home, Mother, a massive underground fungus, is having an existential crisis. Starving and desperate, she births a new offspring—a mushroom that promises boundless love, followed by a slow, blissful death. When the mushrooms pop up in his yard, Rage can’t resist. One bite, and his world explodes into overwhelming ecstasy. Meanwhile, Emile Navarro, a long-dead murderer, is resurrected into a fungus-fueled hunter to find Mother fresh food. Navarro, a remorseless sexual deviant who never found satisfaction, is determined to get this new life “right” this time. Rage enjoys his newfound love of everything, until he finds himself face-to-face with the creature, Navarro—and is forced to risk his happiness by making a choice between life and death.Get caught between the urge to race ahead and the dread of what’s to come in this fast-paced, dark comedic horror thriller. A life-affirming yet chilling tale that reminds you everything will be okay—until it isn’t. Read more