The Critter Truce - (It Didn’t Last): BOOK EIGHT (Turn Four After Dark 8)
About
When everyone is exhausted, peace sounds reasonable. That’s when it’s most dangerous.
After nights of escalating chaos at Fox Run Speedway, someone suggests the unthinkable: a truce.
Not a fix. Not a solution. Just a pause.
- The Critter Council agrees to attend.
- The ghosts agree publicly.
- Pit Road refuses neutrality.
- The track allows the meeting.
For a brief, uneasy stretch of time, cooperation almost works.
Snacks become leverage. Boundaries are discussed. Rules are bent politely. Systems behave when asked nicely. Midnight feels far away, and optimism creeps in where it absolutely does not belong.
Then midnight arrives anyway.
Restraint fades. Alliances crack. Silence turns hostile. The truce doesn’t explode in spectacular fashion—it erodes, quietly and efficiently, leaving sharper consequences behind. Fallout spreads faster than blame, repairs make things worse, and nothing resets the way anyone hoped.
By morning, trust is gone. Boundaries mean less than before. And the track has learned something useful.
Welcome back to TURN FOUR AFTER DARK, the comedy-first supernatural series where:
- Ghosts argue instead of cooperating
- Critters negotiate like seasoned professionals
- Tools hold grudges
- The land remembers everything
- And midnight always changes the rules
Why You’ll Love This Book
- Comedy with teeth — The humor sharpens as the stakes rise, blending absurdity with consequence.
- A turning point in the series — This is where optimism finally loses, and fallout starts stacking.
- Unforgettable factions — Ghosts, critters, humans, and machines all want different things, and none of them agree quietly.
- A setting that fights back — The track isn’t just a backdrop; it watches, judges, and remembers.
- Escalation that feels earned — No cheap resets, no easy fixes, just pressure doing what pressure always does.
- Midnight as an antagonist — Time itself becomes part of the conflict, and it does not negotiate.
What to Expect Inside
- Uneasy diplomacy that feels believable right up until it fails
- Power struggles disguised as cooperation
- Snacks treated like binding contracts
- Rules quoted incorrectly but confidently
- Silence that speaks louder than shouting
- Consequences that don’t arrive all at once—but don’t leave either
Perfect For Readers Who Love
- Supernatural comedy with escalating stakes
- Ensemble casts and rotating points of view
- Stories where places feel alive
- Humor that undercuts fear without removing tension
- Series that remember what happened last time
The Critter Truce (It Didn’t Last) is Book Eight in the TURN FOUR AFTER DARK series, a humorous supernatural saga set at a racetrack called FOX RUN SPEEDWAY in Creswell, North Carolina that refuses to behave like pavement.
While each book delivers its own chaos, this is a series best enjoyed in order, because nothing ever fully resets—and the track never forgets.
Peace was attempted.
Midnight disagreed.
Scroll up and grab your copy now—before the next night gets even worse.