The Beautiful Beast (Extended Sneak Peek): The Seven-Fold Chronicle, #1

One global epicenter. Six families bound by blood. Seven secrets buried in ice.
Welcome to the gripping, unforgiving universe of The Seven-Fold Chronicle**.**

It was supposed to be an ordinary Thanksgiving night. But on the treacherous, frost-slick switchbacks of Colorado's Highway 550—known to locals as Death Road—a horrific collision shatters the midnight silence. A young family is destroyed, their vehicle engulfed in flames. For the lone survivor crawling out of the wreckage, the nightmare is only beginning.

Before the smoke can even clear into the mountain air, a ruthless machine hums to life. A powerful Senator's daughter, an elite family name to protect, and a corrupt police precinct collide to rewrite history. Evidence is hidden. Bloodstains are rearranged. The truth is buried deep beneath the snow, swaddled in privilege and lies. In that minor act, a lifelong promise is broken—and the past is erased into ink.

But flesh is harder to bury than ink. And some debts cannot be managed.

Exactly one year later, the first reckoning falls. Suspended above the freezing waters of the Durango & Silverton bridge, a body dangles in the night breeze. It is no random act of violence. It is a theatrical performance. A ritual. Wrapped in clean, clinical precision, the crime scene is left as a public message painted in crimson strokes for those too busy to look away. A single size 11 boot print, an antique teapot, and a chilling warning left in flesh:

BE SURE TO COLLECT ALL OF THE EVIDENCE.

Masterminded by psychological crime fiction author Leameso James, The Seven-Fold Chronicle is an intense, slow-burn thriller web that tracks a complex, long-game plot of loyalty, institutional deception, and raw, calculated retribution. When you peel back the armor while a heart still beats, you learn the truth underneath. Not their words. Not their excuses. Their bones.

The storm has officially begun. Step into a narrative timeline where a single courageous decision changes everything—and the guilty have nowhere left to hide.