The Thorn Spiral

For years, Margaret Holloway has cleaned up after people who barely notice her. Then she finds something they cannot afford for her to see.

Working nights in a London government building, Margaret knows the quiet corridors and locked doors. But a strange golden light leads her towards records that should not exist: photographs, reports and evidence of beings dismissed as folklore. Behind the familiar world, something ancient has been hidden, studied and controlled.

The discovery becomes deeply personal when the archive points towards her mother, whose disappearance has shaped Margaret’s life since childhood. What she believed was abandonment may conceal a truth far stranger, and far more dangerous. An iron door marked with a thorned spiral offers another question, but no promise of safety.

Drawn into a secret history of hidden worlds and official silence, Margaret must confront the possibility that her ordinary life rests on an extraordinary lie. The Thorn Spiral blends mystery and dark fantasy in a story of loss, courage and the search for a mother who never truly stopped haunting her daughter.