{"product_id":"the-plot-calls-sloth","title":"The Plot Calls: Sloth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e*Revised and Republished October 27, 2026*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Plot Calls: Sloth Book 2 of 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePride was the fall. The call has grown louder since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe One Beneath does not ask. He calls. This time he isn’t hunting the people who want too much.\u003cbr\u003eHe’s hunting the ones who stopped wanting anything at all. But why? What exactly is the One Beneath after?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e____\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix months after the events of the Plot Calls Pride\u003c\/b\u003e, Dr. Calvin Murnane continues grieving the disappearance of his longtime wife and partner, Professor Barbara Alder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Heartlands County Sheriffs Department Chief wants the plot cases buried. Social media wants answers. Sam Erriden tries to provide them. And, Pallid, the One Beneath, keeps feeding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis entry follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDr. Calvin Murnane, a tenured physicist and Barbara Alder’s first love, who never stopped waiting for her to come back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnders Croy, a 27-year server-room lifer at Nexus Corp, who finds out what the company’s AI is really doing and decides silence is easier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvelyn Bainbridge, a widow who has spent fifteen years clinging to the memory of “her Gerald”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReverend Elmer Goss of Carver’s Hollow’s Chapel of the Clear Cross, who preaches hate from the pulpit and would rather be hollowed than confess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of them is visited by the Idle Man, a pale, hollow-eyed figure in black robes who offers the easiest bargain there is: \u003ci\u003eYou never have to change.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetectives Brian Gunn and Cory Alvarez join paranormal blogger Sam Erriden and Marcus Serling to dig deeper into the soil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey look into the Bone Lantern tapes left by Rob Serling, into the Bell family, who once heard the call and walked away, and into Eugene Thaddeus’s Nexus Corp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe deeper they dig, the deeper the plot. If that wasn't enough, someone in Harwaven is being paid to keep the plot buried.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this exciting continuation of The Plot Calls!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the plot calls, will you answer?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e______\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Plot Calls: Sloth is book 2 of 7. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Plot Calls septology is the first arc in Mark A. Figueroa’s The Sideways trilogy.\u003cbr\u003eRead and enjoy the book to learn more, and\/or check out Mark’s website and social media through his linktree.\u003cbr\u003eUse this link: https:\/\/www.linktr.ee\/mark_a_figueroa\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark A. Figueroa's Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68057194430828,"sku":"2jw72e","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/2727\/5372\/files\/rm29qrp-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1793718042","url":"https:\/\/markafigueroa.com\/products\/the-plot-calls-sloth","provider":"Mark A. Figueroa's Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}