The Basalt Pulse: Volume I
by Diana Deak
A haunting psychological thriller that blurs the line between sanity and the ancient forces of nature.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Book 1 of 3: The Basalt Pulse Series
WHAT IF THE MOUNTAINS AREN’T JUST WATCHING YOU?
WHAT IF THEY ARE BREATHING WITH YOU?
The Basalt Pulse is a haunting psychological thriller that blurs the line between sanity and the ancient forces of nature.
At the edge of a restless volcano, two men confront not only the earth’s hidden power—but the deeper fractures within themselves.
Sam Vega is thirty-four, a respected coach, and quietly disappearing from his own life. Not broken. Nothing dramatic has happened. He is simply coasting — functional on every surface, absent from the inside, staring at ceilings at two in the morning and feeling, where meaning used to be, a silence he cannot name.
Then a photograph stops him. A volcanic mountain. A figure standing at a dark basalt threshold, looking in. He steals the magazine from a dentist’s waiting room and calls his best friend Albert.
Albert Nkosi is thirty-three, a professional footballer, and three months into a secret. His club just used the word transition. One word that detonated everything — because football isn’t what Albert does. It’s the scaffolding his entire self was built around. Remove it, and you don’t lose the support. You lose the shape of the thing that was supported.
He says yes to the road trip the way you say yes to the only thing that makes sense. Without deliberation. Immediately.
What follows is 1,500 kilometers of road, one volcanic mountain, and two men who arrive somewhere that has been waiting for them. Monte Pompeii does not appear on any tourist map. Its entrance has been in the dark basalt for ten thousand years. The passage walls are warm from within. Something in the chamber glows. And something ancient — patient, vast, and entirely aware — has been attending to human beings in that dark for longer than any record preserves.
It doesn’t offer revelation. It holds up a mirror at the correct angle. And waits.
Book Details:
- Genre: Literary Fiction, Thriller, Adventure
- Format: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Book 1 of 3: The Basalt Pulse Series
Book 2 of 3: The Basalt Pulse Series
Book 3 of 3: The Basalt Pulse Series
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