Dragons: The Forensic Cycle: Season 1: The Complete 7-Episode Collection: Stories of Madness, Betrayal, and the Monsters within (When Dragons Kill: ... Madness, Betrayal, and the Monsters Within) - Softcover

Johnson, Prof. Dr. Bankole

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798993785967

Publisher: Casa Privée Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

From the Forbes News: Ranked #7 Must-Read Psychological Fiction 2025, The Inaugural Season of the Complete 7-Episode Collection

DRAGONS: The Forensic Cycle — Season One is seven interlocking cases told in a psychological gothic register, where the mystery isn’t only who did it, but how a life can be engineered to make the truth look impossible.

Prof. Dr. John Horacio Harrow is a brilliant British forensic neuropsychiatrist—called in when bodies, memories, and environments won’t behave like “clean” evidence. With Dr. Selena Vargas, his fiercest ally and most dangerous equal, he treats perception as a crime scene: access, timing, residue, repetition, and the small artifacts reality can’t fully erase.

A single receipt cracks open a marriage’s staged reality and exposes a predator using orderliness as camouflage. A luxury wedding becomes a sealed arena of obsession and inherited violence, where prestige distorts perception. In London, a mirror‑centered death suggests a room can learn its victim. A cross‑city predation pattern turns doors and latches into method. A broken ledger proves communities can forge guilt by consensus. And a relic trail from Ravenna to Rome drags Harrow and Selena into a conspiracy where bones are currency, archives are battlegrounds, and institutions will spend lives to avoid paying the truth’s cost.

The season culminates in the Bronx: Mara, a disciplined physician, hears a voice beneath her floor and discovers her building is a living trap. To survive, she must do the unthinkable—turn haunting into evidence—closing Season One with proof, not comfort.

Gothic, precise, and relentlessly human, DRAGONS is about thresholds—between love and control, memory and proof, belief and coercion—and the cost of witnessing. Truth lands. But the darkness learns, too.

Episode Loglines (spoiler‑light)

Episode 1 — When Dragons Kill
A single receipt cracks open a marriage’s staged reality and triggers a chain of coercion and courtroom truth—where Harrow proves that “madness” can be engineered to erase a victim’s credibility.
Episode 2 — Blood Wedding
A luxury wedding becomes a sealed arena of obsession and inherited violence, forcing Harrow and Selena to dismantle a dynasty’s myth before prestige turns murder into destiny.
Episode 3 — The Widow’s Mirror
A mirror‑centered death in London pulls Harrow into a world where light, influence, and obsession become instruments—until the room itself seems to “learn” its victim.
Episode 4 — The Door We Carry
A cross‑city predation case forces Harrow to track violence the way it travels—through doors, thresholds, and habits—until a simple latch becomes the key to a hunter who believes he’s untouchable.
Episode 5 — The Broken Ledger
In a landscape ruled by debt and rumor, a marriage collapses into ritual violence and a manhunt—until Harrow proves that memory itself can be compromised and community consensus can forge guilt.
Episode 6 — Bones of St. Aurelia
A relic trail from Ravenna to Rome entangles Harrow and Selena in a gothic conspiracy where bones are currency, archives are battlegrounds, and institutions will spend lives to avoid paying the truth’s cost.
Episode 7 — Ashes Beneath the Skin
A disciplined woman hears a voice beneath her Bronx floor, discovers her building is a living trap, and survives by turning haunting into evidence—closing the season with proof, not comfort.

Edition details

• Publisher: Casa Privée Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798993785967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 613