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MURMURATION: A Creature Horror Thriller
She gave them a ninety-two percent chance the birds would learn to hunt. They decided the other eight percent was a margin they could work with.Three years ago, ornithologist Dr. Mira Vasquez consulted for Corvus Biosystems on Strain engineered crows called Sentinels, built to think together and released across California's Central Valley as pest control. Her risk assessment said they would start hunting. Corvus noted her concerns, paid her fee and buried her report under an NDA.
On a July afternoon, a murmuration tears through Sacramento. Within hours the Valley belongs to the birds. They scout. They flank. They wait out anything that hides from them. There are forty million of them.
Mira's ten-year-old daughter, Sofi, is trapped at a summer camp in the Sierra foothills, two hundred miles south. Her one phone call home ends when the line goes dead.
With a paramedic she met that afternoon, Mira drives south down Highway 99 through a silent, watching valley toward the only thing that can still stop the the kill switch built on her own failsafe, locked inside the company that silenced her.
She was quiet the first time. She is done being quiet.
MURMURATION is a complete standalone creature horror one night, two hundred miles, and a full ending. No series to start, no cliffhanger.
On a July afternoon, a murmuration tears through Sacramento. Within hours the Valley belongs to the birds. They scout. They flank. They wait out anything that hides from them. There are forty million of them.
Mira's ten-year-old daughter, Sofi, is trapped at a summer camp in the Sierra foothills, two hundred miles south. Her one phone call home ends when the line goes dead.
With a paramedic she met that afternoon, Mira drives south down Highway 99 through a silent, watching valley toward the only thing that can still stop the the kill switch built on her own failsafe, locked inside the company that silenced her.
She was quiet the first time. She is done being quiet.
MURMURATION is a complete standalone creature horror one night, two hundred miles, and a full ending. No series to start, no cliffhanger.
206 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2026
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Nora Penn
77 books7 followersNora Penn writes fast-paced horror novels with strong, relatable characters.
Her favorite authors are Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
She released her first novel, Bite Me Spider, in November of 2017.
She lives in New Hampshire with his husband, who endures her various idiosyncrasies in return for being the first to read her new novels. They welcomed their first child, a daughter, on September 11, 2015.
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Her favorite authors are Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
She released her first novel, Bite Me Spider, in November of 2017.
She lives in New Hampshire with his husband, who endures her various idiosyncrasies in return for being the first to read her new novels. They welcomed their first child, a daughter, on September 11, 2015.
If you don't want to miss any Nora Penn news, you can:
Like the Nora Penn Facebook page:
facebook.com/NoraPennWrites
Follow Nora Penn on Twitter:
twitter.com/NoraPennWrites
For more, please visit:
http://norapenn.com
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