Alistair Finch has spent years pursuing forbidden knowledge, driven by grief and an obsession with reaching beyond the boundary between life and death. His greatest creation is an antique typewriter built from objects touched by tragedy?a machine he believes can carry the voice of his lost wife back from the other side.

But when the keys begin moving on their own, Alistair realizes he has opened a door to something far darker than the spirit he hoped to find.

The presence inside the machine is hungry, patient, and unwilling to let him go. As Alistair struggles against the force he has summoned, he discovers that some creations cannot be destroyed?and some curses are only waiting to be passed on.

The Machine's Creation is Book 1 of Cursed Ink: The Typewriter Chronicles, a supernatural horror series tracing the deadly legacy of a typewriter that should never have existed.