In the small town of Beaver Hollow, West Virginia, forester Luke Steele is haunted by visions of a towering tree, ominous omens, and his own suffocating demise. Tess McCoy, a former Army captain, harbors a debilitating secret and can’t get far enough from her mountain roots to save her life.
When a mystifying accident takes the life of Tess’s younger brother, a series of preternatural events unfolds—propelling the former lovers from the oak-lined streets of their Appalachian hometown into the shifting seasons of an aberrant realm: a wondrous otherworld known as the EverShade.
But the EverShade is no sanctuary. Within its fractured borders, Luke and Tess are caught in a mythic war between two fabled demigods—a war set in motion during the final days of World War II and now threatening to crest its mythical borders and pour without mercy into our own.
The Solstice Treaty is a six-volume graphic novel series (~80 pages each), with the first two books complete and the rest in development. Designed for longform release, it can also be serialized as monthly issues. Each short chapter opens with a full-page spread, enhancing its cinematic tone. Blending urban fantasy, occult thriller, and alternate history, the series evokes Fables, The Sandman, Hellboy, and The Black Monday Murders, appealing to fans of layered, creator-owned speculative fiction.
The story of The Solstice Treaty will be told over the course of six graphic novels. Within each volume lie world-building clues—some hidden in plain sight, others far more subtle. A word, a name, even an image may lead you to secret domains beyond these pages, expanding character backstories, revealing translated messages, or unearthing manuscripts best left forgotten. These discoveries are entirely optional—crafted to enrich the experience without being required to follow the story. Pay close attention—some clues are buried within clues, waiting for a curious mind to uncover what lies beneath.
Here are the current world-buliding domains that lead to websites based on hints/names/etc that can be found in books ONE and TWO.
