The Ice Watches (en Inglés) - Taylor Sakic

The Ice Watches is a supernatural horror novel set in a haunted hockey arena, blending psychological suspense with cosmic dread. The story follows Sidney, a star hockey player, and Taylor, a keen observer and teammate, as they become increasingly aware that something is profoundly wrong beneath the surface of their team's remarkable winning streak. What begins as subtle unease-strange frost patterns, unnatural cold, and whispers at the edge of perception-escalates into a terrifying confrontation with an ancient, predatory force that dwells within the ice itself.

As the team's victories mount, so do the anomalies: players experience exhaustion, paranoia, and disturbing visions. Taylor's research uncovers that the arena was built atop a site of ancient power, where indigenous rituals once sought to bind a primordial entity. Sidney and Taylor discover that the arena's very structure amplifies psychic energy, feeding the entity, which manipulates luck and fate in exchange for the team's vitality and sanity.

The haunting intensifies, manifesting as physical decay in the arena, technological malfunctions, and psychological breakdowns among players and fans. Taylor's late grandfather, Elias Thorne, had tried to contain the force with a ritual of appeasement, but his efforts only strengthened its grip. The climax unfolds in the arena's subterranean depths, where Sidney and Taylor perform a desperate ritual-not to banish the entity, but to heal the land's wounded spirit and sever the parasite's anchor.

In the end, their victory is hard-won: the entity is banished, the land's balance restored, but both are left changed, bearing the scars of their ordeal. The novel explores themes of memory, trauma, and the cost of ignoring the past, ultimately suggesting that true healing requires respect for the forces-natural and supernatural-that shape our world.