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Book 1 · You should be scared.

Don’t Go into the Swamp

Seer Frights #1 · by B. Carter

Cooper Reyes is a worrier. He knows it. He counts things to stay calm, he second-guesses everything he sees, and most of the time his little sister is right that he’s being a baby. So when his family moves to a stilt-house at the edge of a Florida swamp the first week of August, Cooper tells himself the dark water is just dark water.

The locals know better. They say there’s something out in the black channel. They call it the Lurker. They say it’s been there since long before the road — and that every August, it takes one.

Cooper’s dad says it’s a story. His mom says it’s his imagination. His sister says he’s a baby. Cooper wants to believe them. He really does. But the tracks by the dock are too big. The deer in the yard at dawn won’t move, and won’t stop staring at the water. Something scratches under the floor at night — slow, patient, with long pauses between scratches. And every time Cooper almost convinces himself it’s nothing, the swamp shows him one more thing he can’t explain.

Because the swamp doesn’t bury things. It saves them. And it has started to save a place for Cooper.

To get through one August, Cooper has to figure out which warnings are real, who he can trust when no adult will believe him, and what the swamp actually wants — before the third night, out in the deep channel, when it decides whether to let him go home.

A creepy, funny, page-turning middle-grade horror story where every chapter ends on a scare and half of them are real. Reads as a standalone — no prior books required.

Available in paperback and ebook. ISBN 979-8-9951793-0-6.