Book One of the Psychological Thriller Series — The Weight of Your Shadow

You don’t feel like a killer. You feel like clarity. Like precision. Like justice where justice has failed.

By day, you’re a quiet, intelligent professional living in New York City. An observer. A programmer. Invisible by design. But at night—when the silence sharpens—you follow a darker rhythm. One kill at a time. No pattern. No signature. Only purpose.

When the voice inside you returns, cold and instructive, you know it's time again. This time, the target is a corrupt criminal defense attorney who has made a career of helping monsters walk free. He thinks he's untouchable. He’s wrong.

You study him. Infiltrate his habits. And when the moment comes, you don’t flinch. You stage it clean—suicide, simple, elegant. Another death in a city that forgets everything.

But something lingers.

The act doesn’t leave you. It plays back. Not as guilt, but pleasure. Not as compulsion, but control. You begin to feel it again—the pull. The possibility. The need.

And this time, you don’t want the voice to stop.

• You by Caroline Kepnes

• Gillian Flynn’s dark, introspective narratives

• Unreliable narrators and dual personality crime fiction

• Serial killer thrillers with no-nonsense pacing and a slow-burn unraveling

Told in second-person with chilling intimacy, Their Cleanse is the first book in the ten-part series The Weight of Your Shadow