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The Return North
by Jason Flowers
Elara has always known the cold.
She just never knew it knew her.
For twenty-nine years, she has lived with strange dreams, impossible chills, and the unanswered disappearance of her mother. Then one morning, Elara finds herself aboard a train heading north—with no memory of buying the ticket or boarding.
What begins as a search for answers leads her to an isolated coastal town, her grandmother's buried secrets, and an inheritance far older than her family.
There are others with hair like hers.
They hear the same horn.
They feel the same pull north.
And beyond the frozen coastline lies something the oldest stories never called a wall—a boundary between what is remembered and what is present.
As the ice begins to change, Elara must confront an impossible question: Is she discovering a forgotten world, or remembering one she has always belonged to?
The world is not ending.
It is remembering.
Beyond the Ice Wall: The Return North is Book One of the Fireside Chronicles, a dark atmospheric mystery where inherited memory, ancient mythology, and the unexplained collide.
Author: Jason Flowers
Series: Fireside Chronicles
Book: Book One
Genre: Dark Fantasy / Supernatural Mystery / Speculative Fiction
Elara has always hated the cold. At least, that is what she has always told herself.
For twenty-nine years, she has lived with recurring dreams, unexplained sensations, and the unanswered disappearance of her mother. Then, after an impossible night in which a bottle of water freezes in a warm room, Elara wakes to find herself aboard a train heading north—with no memory of buying the ticket or boarding.
The farther north she travels, the less ordinary the world becomes.
A grandmother who has spent eighteen years hiding the truth. A journal written by Elara's missing mother. Strangers with the same pale hair. A mysterious horn that is felt before it is heard. And an ancient boundary hidden within the ice that may separate far more than one place from another.
As Elara follows the path her mother left behind, she discovers a forgotten city buried within the ice—and evidence that whatever lies beyond the boundary may not have been waiting to be discovered.
It may have been waiting for her.
Is Elara uncovering an ancient mythology?
Or is she finally remembering what she has always been?
The world is not ending. It is remembering.
Beyond the Ice Wall: The Return North is Book One of the Fireside Chronicles, an atmospheric dark fantasy mystery about inherited memory, forgotten worlds, and the terrifying possibility that some mysteries recognize us before we recognize them.
CEO. Father. Author. Documenting the stories behind the record.
Jason Flowers is a CEO, father, entrepreneur, and author whose work explores what happens when the official record and lived experience tell different stories. Through THE RECORD series, Jason documents his own experience using firsthand accounts and the records that shaped the events around him. His work through Value Savings Club and Buried Secrets Media is built around a simple principle: information matters, documentation matters, and people deserve the opportunity to examine the record for themselves. THE RECORD: The Story They Wrote Before I Was Heard is the first book in an ongoing series.
The Story They Wrote Before I Was Heard
What happens when an official record starts telling your story before anyone asks for yours?
THE RECORD is Jason Flowers’ firsthand account of the opening weeks of a family-court battle—reconstructed alongside the documents that recorded it.
Police reports. Court filings. An emergency motion. An ex parte order. A hearing.
As the official record grew, Jason was still trying to understand what was happening around him.
This is the story of what he lived, what others reported, and what he discovered when those two versions were finally placed side by side.
This is only the beginning.
Auditing CPS, Police, and the Courts in Real Time as Civil Rights Violations Are Ignored
A father. A custody dispute. A record that tells a very different story.
Written Without Me: Book Two — The System follows Jason Flowers as he examines the CPS, police, court, and public records surrounding events that changed his relationship with his daughter and his understanding of the systems around him. What began as an attempt to understand what happened became an audit of timelines, allegations, missing information, conflicting accounts, and decisions made before he understood the record being built around him.
The First Fracture
Some doors lead to places. Others lead to moments that were never meant to open again.
When sixteen-year-old Eli Rowan inherits his grandfather’s house, he expects dust, memories, and unanswered questions. Instead, he finds clocks that refuse to keep time, a mysterious golden ring, and fractures that can tear open reality itself.
His grandfather left warnings behind.
Don’t touch the water.
Don’t answer when it says your name.
And whatever you do… don’t let it finish counting.
Now Eli must discover what his grandfather knew—and why something on the other side already knows who he is.
The first fracture has opened. And it may only be the beginning.
The Ouroboros Protocol
Time is not a river. It is a cycle. And something inside the cycle has been waiting.
Eli Rowan thought he was learning how to travel through history. Instead, he discovers that every journey has been pulling him deeper into something far older—and far more deliberate—than he imagined.
The Ouroboros Protocol is no longer just a theory. The fractures are widening. The Council is losing control. Renner is making his final move. And somewhere beyond the familiar boundaries of time, the first Rowan is waiting with answers that could change everything Eli believes about his family, the ring, and himself.
As past, present, and possible futures begin folding together, Eli faces a question no traveler before him has been willing to ask:
What if the cycle was never meant to be broken?
Some truths were never meant to be found. This is the strongest, cleanest, and most aligned with Book Two’s plot.
Time doesn’t break. It hides.
Three weeks after Eli Rowan opened the second gate, the fractures are waking—closer, louder, and no longer waiting for him to understand them. The watch won’t stop ticking. The symbol keeps shifting. And the past is beginning to move in ways no one can explain.
The Council wants answers. Miss B wants to protect him. Margaret wants the truth. Priya wants the records to stop rewriting themselves. And Simon—the man who ran—knows exactly what Eli is becoming.
Because the Hollow isn’t hunting him.
It’s remembering him.
And the timeline he thought he understood is only one version of a story that has already happened… and is happening again.
The Hidden Timeline pulls the Ring of Hours deeper into its central mystery:
What did Eli’s grandfather leave behind the gate—
and what came back wearing her face?
The Vampire Dires — Book One
It was supposed to be an easy assignment.
When investigative journalist Christine O'Henry is sent to uncover the story behind the name of Hell, Michigan, she expects local legends, tourist traps, and fifteen hundred easy words.
Instead, she finds a missing page.
Then a family secret.
Then records of men who vanished in 1841—and the name of a man officially declared dead who somehow continued conducting business afterward.
At the center of it all is an unexplained word appearing beside certain names in an old ledger:
DIRE.
The deeper Christine digs, the less the historical record makes sense. A forgotten stone structure. A warning passed through generations. Handwriting that appears across documents separated by decades. And eventually, an ordinary man living an ordinary life who may be anything but ordinary.
Because whatever happened in Hell in 1841 didn't end there.
And Christine is beginning to realize she may not have found this story by accident.
Some Buildings Have Floors You’re Never Meant to Find
A single piece of paper shuts down part of Jay Flowers’s company.
The inspection never happened.
As Jay digs into the notice that threatens Flowers Industrial, he discovers another business owner who received nearly identical paperwork—and lost everything. Then the pressure spreads. His bank questions his stability. Rumors reach his board. People close to him unknowingly repeat information that someone else is turning into evidence.
Someone isn’t simply trying to destroy Jay’s company.
They’re building a version of reality in which taking it from him looks completely justified.
Every answer leads to another intermediary. Every name has another name above it. And somewhere beyond the people Jay can identify is a level of the operation even they seem afraid to discuss.
Some buildings have floors you’re never meant to find.
Sheriff’s Diaries
A $200 reward. A murdered stage driver. An outlaw who may have been framed.
In 1878, Deputy U.S. Marshal Elias Cade follows a warrant into Indian Territory—and discovers the trail leads straight toward the powerful man paying for the hunt.
Sheriff’s Diaries — Book Two
Deputy U.S. Marshal Elias Cade uncovered the truth. Now he has to prove it. With witnesses under pressure, the law closing in, and Colonel Ambrose Denbigh fighting back without firing a shot, Cade has thirty days to build a case strong enough to bring down one of the territory’s most powerful men.