The Curse of Borrowed Rice

Eight-year-old Tommy’s family receives a mysterious gift of rice during a deadly drought, only to discover it may be part of a sinister bargain. As family secrets surface and a supernatural threat closes in, hope gives way to terror. With the monster demanding a bloody repayment, Tommy and his loved ones are forced to confront the true cost of survival in Maple Heights.

Forced into a twisted marriage with a monstrous snake to save her brother, Hannah’s sacrifice turns her family’s desperation into a dangerous secret. As her younger sibling fights hunger and the pull of forbidden meat, the family teeters on the edge of ruin and betrayal. But the curse lurking beneath their roof is growing—and promises alone may not be enough to survive.

When Natalie picks up a mysterious ten-dollar bill at the hospital, she unwittingly drags herself—and everyone she loves—into a deadly supernatural scam. Her boyfriend Caleb, secretly the town’s Soul Ferryman, must race against a blood-red countdown to save her from a fate worse than death. Family, love, and life itself hang in the balance as curses and secrets threaten to destroy them all.

Mark came home to save his family’s farm, but when his deal leaves neighbors with less than promised, they accuse him of pocketing $700,000. Betrayed and shamed by the people he loves, Mark must choose between clearing his name and saving the mandarins before everything rots—including his reputation. In this small town, one mistake can turn you from hero to outcast overnight.

Blind fortune-teller Caleb Moore scrapes by reading troubled lives—until a desperate woman brings him to her cursed apartment, haunted by a dream lover and a shadow-eyed dog. Every night, something invades her sleep and drains her soul, but the true horror is hiding in plain sight. Caleb must face an evil that preys on the forgotten, even if it means sacrificing what little he has left.

Traded by her starving father for four pieces of cornbread, Molly’s only path to survival is serving as a maid in the ruthless Whitaker mansion. When she’s forced to compete against a beautiful rival for the young master’s favor—and a chance to escape a life of servitude—one misstep could cost her everything. In a world where dignity is a luxury and betrayal lurks in every hallway, will she risk her soul for freedom?

When Natalie’s Second Uncle kills a mystical white rat to save himself, their small town is plunged into a nightmare of greed, vengeance, and supernatural horror. As townsfolk fall prey to a deadly curse, Natalie must survive abuse, betrayal, and a rising tide of violence—before the spirit’s wrath claims her too.

My mother killed my sister for a dowry, injecting her with tainted blood and forcing a wedding to a cursed heir. Now, as my sister’s vengeful spirit rises in her red bridal dress, both the living and the dead want me dead before dawn. Trapped in a house of blood, betrayal, and greed, I must survive the night—or become the next sacrifice to my family’s sins.

When Carter’s cousin returns from a night fishing trip unresponsive and ice-cold, the whole town whispers about curses and restless spirits. With his cousin’s soul trapped and a haunted apple tree blazing where a mute orphan girl once hanged herself, Carter is forced into a world of backwoods magic and secrets no one dares name. Now, the line between dreams and reality is burning—and Carter may be the only one who can save his family from a darkness older than the town itself.

A broke cabbie’s one-night stand with a mysterious beauty leaves him marked by a deadly curse—seven nights to survive, or she’ll skin him alive. Desperate, he clings to a talisman and a stranger’s warning, but every night the line between seduction and death blurs. When he learns the only thing protecting him might be the very thing drawing her closer, he must choose: trust the living, or bargain with the dead.

Haunted by betrayal and drowning in grief, Charlie takes a desperate job: severing a deadly bond between a terrified daughter and the spirit of her ghostly lover. Armed only with a mysterious peach-wood whip and his own broken heart, he must face the darkness beneath an abandoned cemetery—where the line between the living and the dead blurs, and not everyone wants to be saved. If he fails, he’ll lose more than just his last chance at redemption—he might lose his soul.

When Carter sells a haunted BMW to a desperate groom, he never expects the car’s bloody history to destroy a marriage, claim a life, and bring the dead man’s ruthless fiancée back to cash in on his corpse. In a small town where every deal is a gamble and the past always rides shotgun, Carter’s honesty is the only thing standing between him and ruin—until a new buyer arrives, hunting for a car with the highest body count. But when the police call, Carter realizes some secrets can’t be sold, and some ghosts never leave the lot.