Myth – Write on the World

Two children walk into the woods, and only one returns. From that chilling premise, The Counting Game by Sinéad Nolan unfolds into an atmospheric psychological mystery that lingers long after the final page. Releasing April 7, 2026, this debut crime novel turns a rural Irish legend into something far more unsettling: a story where the real danger might be human—or something else entirely.

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Set in southwest Ireland in 1995, the novel opens with the disappearance of thirteen-year-old Saoirse Kellough. She vanished while playing the so-called “Counting Game” in the forest with her younger brother, Jack. The rules are simple: go into the woods, count to ten, and stay hidden. The problem is that only Jack comes out. Worse still, he refuses to speak about what happened.

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The first thing that struck me about A Harvest of Furies by Hayden Casey was its ambition. This contemporary retelling of Aeschylus’s Oresteia brings ancient themes of guilt, vengeance, and divine punishment into a modern Midwestern setting—an inspired concept that could have easily collapsed under its own weight. Yet, for much of the novel, Casey manages to sustain that tension between the mythic and the mundane, between the haunted family home and the echoes of war that ripple through its walls.

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The story centers on siblings Orrie and Emma, whose family has been cursed for generations. When their father, Aggie, returns home from war a changed man, the fragile normalcy they’ve built begins to unravel. Secrets surface, deaths follow, and before long, the house itself seems alive with voices—echoes of both the past and the family’s own unraveling sanity.

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