The Wax Prison by Adrian Cross Launches the Blake Hunter Series

The figures look lifeless. They’re not. And one of them knows Alexa’s name.

With The Wax Prison, Adrian Cross opens the Blake Hunter series with a supernatural mystery built around memory, identity, and a museum whose exhibits are far more human than they should be.

A Museum That Should Never Have Reopened

Maximilian Kramer has resurfaced in Sea Port to reopen a wax museum whose collection seems far too human. When Alexa, a nineteen-year-old woman, hears one of the figures call for help, her nightmares stop feeling like dreams and begin returning a name she does not recognize: Farah.

Blake Hunter Enters the Case

Blake Hunter, custodian of an Order that investigates alterations of memory, body, and will, follows a trail of black wax from Cape Red to Kramer’s museum. There he discovers that the old man is not looking for just any victim: he has been waiting for Alexa for decades, and the figures on display are not mere sculptures.

To stop him, Blake will have to enter a prison where breaking the mechanism may kill those he means to free. As Kramer prepares Farah’s return and the museum begins to reveal what it keeps beneath the wax, every decision reduces the chances that anyone will emerge unscathed.

The First Blake Hunter Mystery

The Wax Prison introduces a series in which investigation collides with forces that alter memory, body, and will. Cross builds the story as a layered mystery first and a supernatural nightmare second, allowing each discovery to make the ordinary world less reliable.

About Adrian Cross

Adrian Cross is an author of mystery and supernatural fiction whose work explores the point where investigation, psychological tension, and the unexplained begin to overlap. His stories are built around carefully layered mysteries, atmospheric settings, and characters forced to confront situations in which logic alone is no longer enough.

The Wax Prison is now available from Lefortune Publishing.