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In Haunted Shadows, the first installment in the Haunted Truth series, former journalist Mara Winters launches an investigation that catapults her from fringe ghost hunter to viral sensation. But what begins as a search for supernatural evidence spirals into something far more insidious when a series of encrypted messages leads her back to her sister’s suspicious death—and to a shadowy system that never stopped watching. This series follows a complex and troubled protagonist as she navigates unraveling realities, buried trauma, and a growing sense that what’s haunting her isn’t a ...

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 novel of memory, revenge, and the cost of silence. When a woman returns to the house where everything happened, she doesn’t come for closure—she comes with a box of matches. In the wake of a man’s death by fire, a woman begins to unravel the truth she buried years ago, one journal entry at a time. But memory is never linear, and truth doesn’t come clean. As voices from her past rise through the smoke—some hers, some not—she begins to understand that what she did can’t be undone. And worse: that she might not want to. For Her Anger is the first novel in a haunting companion ...

When a woman is found posed before a mirror, eyelids removed and glass embedded in her skin, FBI profiler Nora Kade is pulled into a case that’s more than grotesque—it’s personal. The killer’s ritualistic obsession with truth and reflection echoes the trauma Nora has spent her life burying. But as more bodies appear, each etched with spirals that mirror her own past, Nora realizes this isn’t just a serial killer. It’s a message. One written in blood, glass, and memory. BENEATH GLASS is the chilling first book in the Beneath series, a dark psychological thriller from bestselling ...

When a missing girl’s trail reopens in a coastal town that survives on forgetting, one woman must confront the secrets she ran from—and the silence she helped create. After ten years away, she returns to care for her ailing father—but the town hasn’t moved on. Whispers follow her. Eyes linger. No one says it aloud, but they all remember the girl who vanished… and the last person to see her alive. When torn pages from a diary surface beneath the floorboards, she’s forced to face what she buried: the truth doesn’t rot—it waits. In a town where everyone is complicit and silence...

When a series of eerily precise murders unfolds in a forgotten pattern of pain, FBI profiler Dr. Eliza Voss is drawn into a labyrinth she may not want to escape. The victims aren't just killed—they're transformed. The crime scenes mirror architectural diagrams, human bodies broken into symbols, spirals, and blueprints of something far older than justice. And the deeper Eliza goes, the more she realizes she isn't investigating the design—she’s becoming part of it. Threshold of Architects is the third installment in the haunting psychological thriller series by acclaimed author [Author ...

When the mutilated bodies of two victims are discovered posed with surgical precision, investigative blogger Mara Reeves sees more than just a gruesome crime—she sees a message. A message that mirrors the night her parents were murdered two decades ago. Haunted by her past and driven by a compulsion she no longer questions, Mara launches her own investigation, one that spirals into obsession as a killer begins responding… directly to her. With each new murder, the message becomes clearer—and more personal. The killer is recreating a forgotten past, one that Mara has tried desperately ...

When a series of ritualistic murders leaves victims adorned in intricate pin patterns, FBI profiler Dr. Eliza Voss is called in to decipher the mind behind the method. But the deeper she delves, the more she realizes these aren’t just killings—they’re messages. And they’re meant for her. THRESHOLD OF PATTERNS is the first chilling installment in the Thresholds of Pain series, a cerebral and psychologically immersive new collection from acclaimed thriller author [Author Name]. With echoes of Silence of the Lambs, Sharp Objects, and Seven, this series follows the unraveling of Dr. ...

A dark, seductive psychological thriller featuring a hidden killer, a cult leader, and a ritualistic murder cloaked in silence. Fans of Gone Girl, YOU, Verity, and The Last House on Needless Street will be obsessed. You weren’t invited to heal. You came to end her. Welcome to the remote mountain retreat of “Eden’s Light,” where women come to find freedom, salvation, and surrender. But you—calm, calculated, endlessly polite—arrived with a different purpose. Beneath the stillness and soft-spoken lies of this spiritual commune lives a predator in silk: Eden, a charismatic cult ...

Their Collapse is the fourth haunting installment in the critically acclaimed The Weight of Your Shadow series by dark fiction author Ava Rowens. Told in chilling second-person perspective, the series follows you, an intelligent, unsettling presence living two lives—one curated, one compelled. After orchestrating the “cleansing” of a toxic factory owner in a small town that would rather forget, you return home unchanged on the surface—but deeper fractures have started to show. The women of the last kill still echo in your head. The blank hours, the absence of control, the ...

Their Burden (The Weight of Your Shadow, Book 3) The perfect dad. The early morning jogger. The next body. You’ve memorized his movements. His jog begins at 6:15. The dose is already in his system. By the time he hits the pavement, he’ll be gone. To them, it’ll look like a tragic heart attack. To you, it’s clean. Controlled. But the high fades too fast. The memory won’t stay sharp. And the voice—the one that usually waits—is already one step ahead. The Weight of Your Shadow is a critically acclaimed psychological thriller series told entirely in a second-person narrative that ...

When a dismembered body is found posed like a sculpture in the windswept plains of Nebraska—ribs carved into the shape of a snarling wolf—FBI profiler Nora Kade is pulled into one of the most grotesque cases of her career. But as the killer’s obsession with bone deepens, each new victim brings a message written in flesh, echoing Nora’s own past in terrifying detail. Beneath Bone is the second installment in the darkly addictive Beneath Series, a psychological thriller collection by a master of atmospheric suspense. In the haunting voice of Nora’s journal entries, the book explores...

When a quiet mountain town becomes a hotspot for unexplained phenomena, Mara Winters—ghost hunter, vlogger, and survivor of her own haunted past—arrives desperate for answers. But the deeper she digs, the more the town’s secrets twist around her, stirring old memories she can’t trust and uncovering a force more disturbing than anything she's faced before. Haunted Secrets is the third book in the chilling Haunted Truth series, a psychological thriller that plunges readers into a world where the line between reality and illusion blurs beyond recognition. Darkly atmospheric and ...

The frozen quiet of a forgotten town hides something feral beneath the snow. Detective Laura Hensley never expected the return of the one presence she’s spent her life trying to forget—the faceless killer with white eyes who vanished a decade ago after leaving a trail of meticulously posed bodies and silence. Now he’s back. And this time, it’s personal. As Laura unearths cryptic symbols, childhood echoes, and a string of murders too familiar to dismiss, her investigation begins to fracture—along with her mind. Her private journal becomes the only place she can confess what’s ...

When Mara Winters returns to her childhood home after her estranged mother’s death, she expects silence. Instead, she finds it wired—full of tapes, signals, and secrets. The basement is colder than she remembers. The VHS tapes she uncovers aren’t just documenting hauntings; they’re creating them. And the experiments her mother left behind weren’t meant to communicate with the dead—they were meant to train something to wear the living. In HAUNTED WHISPERS, the fourth book in the Haunted Truth series, Mara has gone off the grid, offline and alone, her ghost-hunting vlog abandoned....

When the scattered remains of a missing girl begin to surface in a town desperate to forget, one woman must unravel the truth hidden beneath decades of silence — before the past buries her too. In For Her Pain, the devastating third book of the For Her Silence series by psychological suspense author Ava Rowens, pain isn’t just remembered — it’s inherited. Returning to a town that turned its back on her once already, the unnamed narrator must confront the ghosts stitched into the very soil she walks on. With buried voices clawing their way back to the surface, and the town’s ...

Young professionals are turning up dead across Chicago, their bodies meticulously posed, marked with cryptic symbols, and absent of any traceable evidence. When the case lands on the desk of relentless prosecutor Elena Marquez, it quickly becomes clear—this isn’t the work of a typical killer. This is ritual. This is performance. And it’s only just begun. Elena, still haunted by past trials and a legacy she’s desperate to outrun, is thrown into the heart of a mystery that defies logic. With pressure mounting from the public, the media, and within her own fractured psyche, she pursues...

The snow hasn’t melted, and neither has the past. After years of hiding in the cold quiet of rural isolation, former detective Laura Hensley can no longer outrun the thing that’s stalked her since childhood. The white-eyed killer—the one who shaped her life in silence and blood—has returned. The murders are more savage, more personal, and this time, the bodies are being left in Laura’s backyard. DARK CROWNS is the final, harrowing installment of the Dark Descent psychological thriller series by #1 bestselling author Ava Rowens. Through the final entries in Laura’s weathered ...

When a quiet mountain town becomes a hotspot for unexplained phenomena, Mara Winters—ghost hunter, vlogger, and survivor of her own haunted past—arrives desperate for answers. But the deeper she digs, the more the town’s secrets twist around her, stirring old memories she can’t trust and uncovering a force more disturbing than anything she's faced before. Haunted Secrets is the third book in the chilling Haunted Truth series, a psychological thriller that plunges readers into a world where the line between reality and illusion blurs beyond recognition. Darkly atmospheric and ...

When a body is discovered posed beneath the high school floodlights, Sheriff Jenna Graves knows it’s not a crime scene — it’s a message. The girl’s expression is too calm. Her placement too precise. And tucked beneath her wrist is a note with Jenna’s name on it. As more victims surface, each one eerily familiar, Jenna begins to unravel a chilling truth: the murders aren’t random, they’re intimate. Every spiral carved into bone, every whisper scrawled in ash, points back to a past she has tried—and failed—to forget. But the Hollow remembers. And it's not just the town ...