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A desert house made of adobe with a sagging porch and strange dried herbs hanging by the door.

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Listen: Chapter 1 - Scorpion Grass and Silver

Alex Rivers inherits his estranged grandmother's isolated, herb-filled desert home, where he confronts unsettling phenomena and cryptic warnings that challenge his cynical worldview.