Paranormal Psychological Thriller

Four carefully selected short stories from C. Y. Stewart with the author's first-hand recount of how each of the stories were developed, providing you with a behind-the-scenes peek into the author's creative process as well as her personal life. Have You Seen Jeffrey? It has been a month since it happened. At first, Steve and I talked about it every day. In the mornings, while sitting on our balcony, drinking coffee and looking down at the lush green valley below, our thoughts and discussion would manage to drift back to the mystery of what happened to Jeffrey. I checked the news every day....

Michael Dane had been wandering in the darkness of his own despair for what felt like an eternity. The night sky was filled with stars but all he could see was loneliness and emptiness. He had been running away from his past for as long as he could remember, but now he was completely lost and alone. He felt like he had been swallowed by an endless void and he was never going to find a way out. But then one night, something changed. As he continued his long journey, he felt a strange power awaken inside of him that he never knew he had. He slowly realized he could manipulate the world around...

“A truly unique and chilling account of a mass killing as seen through the eyes of many.” –Sublime Book Review A mass shooting in a nursing home rocks a southern Indiana town. The ripple effects afflict emergency workers, the nursing home staff, town officials, and the friends and families of the victims—both immediately and for weeks and months thereafter. Chillingly, those murdered often appear as ghosts, plaguing their family members with dangerous and surprising urges. Will a copycat shooter emerge from among them to kill again?

The new baby arrives but Ashland can’t put off the inevitable. The medium must return to Magnolia Trace to set the captive dead free but not all spirits are happy about it. The loss of Amelia weighs heavily on everyone's heart yet they cannot provide answers for her family. To make matters worse, Ashland accidentally unleashes unwanted darkness that settles on his family home, Seven Sisters. The ghosts of Christine and Jeremiah Cottonwood are reunited and neither of them are happy about it. Will their constant warring break up CJ's and Ashland's happy marriage? Can Carrie Jo and Ashland ...

Dive into a world where danger lurks in every shadow and secrets are hidden in plain sight. In this gripping thriller anthology, you'll journey through the darkest corners of the human psyche, where the truth is a shifting enigma. Prepare to be on the edge of your seat as each story unfolds, pulling you deeper into a web of suspense, intrigue, and pulse-pounding action. From espionage in a post-apocalyptic world to a young man's desperate attempts to clear his name, these tales will keep your heart racing, your mind guessing, and your instincts sharpened. In this single-author anthology, ...

Detective Arlan Trahan’s trip home to Louisiana turns into a working vacation when a former classmate turned medium vanishes without a trace—except for a suspicious tarot card reading she performed for the head of the Mexican Mafia. A mysterious note she leaves suggests she has learned to do more with tarot cards than tell fortunes. She has opened a window into a more powerful realm that the mafia is keenly interested in. If what she can do is real, criminals will soon rule the world . . . unless Detective Trahan can find her first.

FalconClaw - Fraternal is book four in the FalconClaw Detective Series but can also be read as a standalone novel. This continuing saga finds Detective Frank Collazo dealing with loss and the search for the maniacal killers laying waste to the mean streets of North Philly in the fall and winter of 2021. In the words of retired FBI Criminal Profiler Douglas Cantrell, 'A good friend once told me that every relationship has an expiration date. That friend was Frank Collazo, and he was right.' With the loss of his father, Salvatore, at the age of only fourteen, Frank learned far too young that ...

This fast-paced and psychologically intense novella throws a spotlight onto some of the characters of the full-length novel series, RHUNA: A Quest for Ancient Wisdom. Yarqi believes she has finally found true enlightenment when she joins the Order of Pure Power, and she is thrilled when The Master himself approves of her progress in summoning visions, creating illusions and performing an act of Sympathetic magic that nearly kills a man. Despite her fast rise in the ranks of the Order, Yarqi is plagued by self-doubt and reminders of the secret traditions of her mother’s people. The ...

A strange town. A missing mother. A darkness that watches from the woods. Sadie Angelheart never wanted to move to Obscurum, North Carolina—a town so tiny it barely appears on the map. But after her father's arrest and her family's unraveling, it seemed like a fresh start. That is, until her mother vanishes without a trace. Now, Sadie is stuck in a town where shadows move when no one’s watching, the forest holds secrets older than memory, and nobody seems to notice just how wrong everything feels. Together with her little brother Sam and a quirky librarian with a hidden past, Sadie ...

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 6 of 15 Will Rachel's life ever feel normal again? Rachel thought her life was finally getting some normalcy after the harrowing feats of exposing the founding family of their horrific crimes against the children. She was wrong. Rachel befriends a teenager she rescued and realizes they have a lot in common. Rachel and Adam also reconnect with a founding member imprisoned for murder. Death still lurks around the corner and creeps into her sleep, her visions and her town. Fog, dread, terror … and she must face it head-on.

The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence: I’ll wait forever if I have to. It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know. Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply? You. I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong. We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate.

The definitive conclusion to the Preternatural trilogy! A year ago, Blackheart was finally put to rest, but now finds himself cast out of the afterlife and back to his old ways. Planning a war on God, he resurrects John Smith to assist him in this quest, all while acting as a false prophet and savior to the people of Meadowsville. Follow the final adventures of Alexandra Hughes and the Reed family, as they work together to finally destroy this legendary monster once and for all, or find themselves in hell on earth.God help us...

“In the mind of a killer” takes on a whole new meaning when Liza Brewer finds herself literally there. She sees through his eyes, feels what he feels, experiences his actions as if she is the one killing. Liza isn’t a medium. She moves from mind to mind, an observer having no direct contact with her host. A date, a meal, the pain and thrills of a single woman’s love life, Liza shares it all. Until the day she “haunts” a killer’s next victim. Now she’s in the middle of the woods with nowhere to run, up against a man with a taste for blood and a secret she can’t even imagine.

The tape records both the truth and the lies… “Amelia, I am Doctor Gabriel Paul. You may be wondering: how did Amelia Larkin come to be in a place like this? It is entirely in your hands how far you are willing to go to remember.” What is this strange place? What has she done to end up here, cut off from the rest of the world? All Amelia knows is that whatever happened was so bad, her shaken mind has buried all traces of it. And she is determined to go back there, whatever the cost. But something feels off. As Amelia responds obediently to the benevolent psychiatrist’s questions, ...

It’s a day like any other for Eloise Montgomery - until tragedy strikes. While she is recovering from a horrible accident that takes the lives of her husband and oldest daughter, and as she works to help her younger daughter move forward, Eloise experiences her first psychic vision. Though she struggles to understand her newfound gifts, Eloise finds a way use them to save lost women and girls - for whom her help may be the only way out...

This story had it all - dangerous quest, magic academy, drama and intrigue – perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Pretty Little Liars. Alice wanted to study at Welkin – the Spherical Magic Academy to create magic objects. Her dream is coming true. She takes the place of a missing girl, lives in her room, studies according to her schedule, and takes part in an exciting game. Here she meets her rivals. Mysterious, unpredictable and dangerous. They are all lying. Who’s hiding behind the masks of humans? Friends? Enemies? Monsters? Alice doesn't know. The answer is in the game. What...

The Fennigan Case: A strange phone call made in 1932 somehow manages to get —in modern times— into the newsroom of a local TV station, and the news editor is the one catching it. Based on the very cryptic information he got from that phone call he decides to send two of his reporters to the ‘scene of the crime’ to investigate; however when these two reporters get there all they see is an abandoned mansion, no one is in sight. Just when they are about to leave someone opens the door -from the inside- and they step in… to another time, dimension and era, while they catch all sorts ...

A Door Once Closed… Now Waits to Open Again. Every year, on the same night, at precisely 3:33 AM, someone vanishes from the town of Black Hollow—without a trace. No bodies. No explanations. Just whispers of an ancient phenomenon known as The Vanishing Hour. Investigative journalist Evelyn Cade never believed in ghost stories. But when she receives a cryptic message from Cassandra Moore, a woman who disappeared a year ago, she is thrust into a mystery darker than anything she has ever uncovered. The message is simple, chilling, and impossible: "Find the Vanishing Hour." Determined to ...

The Marks is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Onassi, an ordinary security guard who discovers mysterious marks on his body one night. The marks possess a strange supernatural power, which soon entangle him in a series of inexplicable events, thwarted robberies, and sudden healings. As he struggles to uncover the meaning of the marks, rumors of his strange power spread. A sprawling cast of deviants, freaks, meddling coworkers, and downtrodden pilgrims come forth — Some hail him as a wonderworker. Others denounce him as a hoax. Caught in a whirlwind of controversy, Onassi ...

Alma Cullen is dead. In a bizarre link, people from flight BX842 are dying at a holiday resort in Greece. DCI Silas Nash and his second in command, DI Molly Brown, go undercover as the body count rises. The guests have stopped dying—but there’s a new threat. One by one, the remaining guests go missing. Nash must solve the mystery before it’s too late. In this interconnected standalone paranormal detective thriller, Katherine Black delivers more intrigue and clues for the reader to find as she delves into the dark recesses of the human psyche. How do you hunt a killer when you don’t ...