The Rooster Crows at Midnight

The Bureau of Imaginary Problems does not officially exist.

Unofficially, it is overworked, underfunded, morally compromised, and still the closest thing reality has to a janitorial service with guns.

Former journalist Mara Quill is now a Bureau field agent, which means her job involves cryptids, cursed infrastructure, impossible paperwork, and asking inconvenient questions while things with teeth object. When the rural town of Black Hollow begins experiencing a miraculous run of good luck—lottery wins, impossible survivals, sudden healings, and one suspiciously victorious raccoon—the case looks almost wholesome.

As the case spirals from backroads West Virginia to hidden markets, impossible archives, vanished train platforms, and the Bureau’s own classified SCIF, Mara discovers the true enemy is not simply selling miracles.

It is selling better endings.

And better endings are dangerous when they erase who paid for the first one.

Darkly funny, strange, heartfelt, and packed with bureaucratic absurdity, The Rooster Crows at Midnight is a supernatural adventure about luck, memory, identity, truth, revision, and the stupid details that prove what really happened.

Because sometimes the only thing standing between reality and a cleaner lie is a field report, a haunted coffee machine, a green card marked MAYBE, and one deeply uncooperative rooster.