When the Sky Went Black

At 3:17 p.m., a school bus enters a perfectly vertical wall of black cloud outside the rural town of Larkhaven. Seven minutes later, the storm ends. The bus is found overturned almost three kilometres from the road. The driver is dead. Several children are missing. One survivor insists that something walked beside the bus throughout the darkness.Atmospheric physicist Dr. Sabine Ketter arrives expecting an extreme-weather anomaly. Instead she finds damage that contradicts the recorded weather, rooms soaked by rain beneath intact roofs, instruments that fail for the same seven-minute interval, and powerless radios whispering voices. Investigative journalist Adrian Kell is asking a different question: why did unmarked government vehicles reach Larkhaven before the national emergency response, and why do their teams already know which impossible details to ask witnesses about?As search-and-rescue specialist Tomas Grell hunts for the missing children, the evidence leads beneath Larkhaven into old pumping tunnels where something is knocking in the dark. A private security team moves to erase evidence. Distances stop behaving normally. And the closer Sabine comes to defining the storm's rules, the clearer it becomes that Larkhaven is not the first place this has happened.The storm lasted exactly seven minutes. The recordings lost exactly seven minutes. And buried inside the surviving signal is a coordinate pointing northwest.When the Sky Went Black is Book 1 of The Seven-Minute Storm, a fast-moving supernatural horror thriller blending impossible weather, conspiracy, rescue action and spatial horror.