Five years, boundless stories, endless wonder. The Briar Archive: Volume 1 is the Briarverse completionist’s dream. Relive the one-of-a-kind interactive saga with a digital boxed set that includes Ackerly Green’s Guide to MAGIQ and every story from the first five years of The Briar Archive: The Monarch Papers: Flora & Fauna The Monarch Papers: Cosmos & Time Ackerly Green’s Secret Society The Search for Magiq The Book of Briars
An ancient secret society, a new age of magic, and a question that could decide the fate of the world. When a mysterious entity known only as “The Well” joins the forum and begins delivering strange ephemera from an alternate timeline, a select group of readers finds themselves faced with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity— To join a secret, centuries-old organization devoted to the preservation, study, and performance of magic. An organization called the Briar Society. With the Well at the helm, and familiar faces joining their search, the newly-minted Briars chase one cryptic clue to the next in their quest for answers and magimystic knowledge while also connecting loose ends that begin with The Book of Briars and reach all the way back to The Monarch Papers. From a nineteenth-century branch of the original society to Deirdre Green’s Manhattan brownstone, from the Cotswolds to the Pacific Northwest to rural Missouri, the adventures of the Briar Society span countries and centuries in their efforts to unravel a set of ever more convoluted “mystifications,” all to answer a single, crucial question— A question that, if answered, might finally reveal what waits for them in the shadows of the new age.
No one remembered the books but her. Alistair Mead only remembers one thing from the year she went missing as a child: A series of books that don’t exist. After years of searching, she stumbles on a clue that proves the books were real but were somehow erased from existence. Desperate for answers, Alistair is drawn into an ancient literary underworld whose members believe she might be the key to unraveling the books, and the altered history of the world. Ben Kriminger hasn’t written in a year. Traumatized by the fanatical reaction to his novel about unsolved disappearances, Ben is still trying to undo the bloody damage caused by his writing and the unhinged reader who couldn’t tell fiction from fact. When book pages about a young woman named Alistair begin showing up on Ben’s doorstep, he finds that her story mirrors events in his own ill-fated novel. Still unsure if what he’s reading is fiction, Ben can’t help but act when the pages depict the same people who destroyed his life turning their twisted attention on Alistair. As their parallel paths spiral toward an impossible revelation, Ben and Alistair learn that seeing this story through may damn the world to darkness before the final page is turned. The Book of Briars is a reality-smashing tale of fiction and fate, a story that explores what happens when the lines that separate memory, magic, and the mundane world are shattered beyond repair.
In 1946, a powerful freight train storms across West Virginia. Half a century later, police learn the terrible truth about that night. The railway mystery sets off a bizarre series of present-day crimes that threaten to derail State Police detective Josh Draper and his alluring assistant, Annie McBride. The two race to unravel the past while an environmental disaster looms and dangerous criminals from New York prepare to clash with the inhabitants of a tranquil valley called Briar Fork. Enjoy this tour-de-force Henry D. Smith classic, complete with his trademark humor, flamboyant characters, striking West Virginia settings'¦and the engineering marvels he is renowned for bringing to life.
