Julia Summers is an indie cover artist. Neck deep in the Victorian Zombie Romance revolution, she's ripping bodices and painting six-pack abs for some of the genre's up-and-comers.

Still, all this art isn't covering the rent, so when a bestselling author reaches out for her latest series, it's exactly the lifeline this young artist needs.

But the competition is fierce and it isn't long before late nights and dangerous shortcuts take her to the greatest heights of her art, and the deepest dark of the human soul.

Sometimes it's best to let dead gods lie dreaming and not bring their blood-soaked desires to pixelated perfection.

"In his house at R'Lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming…and we will wake him."

Mother of Madness is a novella-length three-part reimagining of The Call of Cthulhu for a modern audience.

Julia Summers is a woman on the run. The Mother of Madness has stirred the dead god and in doing so, raised an army of his followers. Hiding out in a camping store parking lot and living life day-to-day, she's trying to make sense of a world she never knew existed.

With true friends hard to come by, Jules finds terrifying cultish admirers a dime-a-dozen. She decides to arm herself, but the gun clerk and his buddies might be exactly what her mother and the dead god are looking for.

The primordial clay of creation calls. It's time to wake the one that will come and bring his blood-soaked desires to life.

"In his house at R'Lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming…and I will wake him."

Mother of Madness is a novella-length three-part reimagining of The Call of Cthulhu for a modern audience.

Julia Summers is a woman at the brink. The Mother of Madness has murdered her best friend and in doing so woken the dead god. Cultists rejoice as she contemplates her own demise, but a last second call from an old flame stays her trigger finger.

He's got a plan, and even though she's not privy to the big picture, Jules has hope. Still, true promise is fleeting and the darkness swells ever larger. The dead god has plans of his own, and the world continues to spiral into shadow.

This plan takes her deep into the bowels of the machine, to server-packed halls, and the birthplace of the AI that started it all.

It's time to visit R'Lyeh, to find the dead god, and stop the unimaginable.

It's time to learn what it means to be the Mother of Madness.

"In his house at R'Lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming… and I must stop him."

Mother of Madness is a novella-length three-part reimagining of The Call of Cthulhu for a modern audience.