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She says she doesn’t remember. He’s starting to wish he didn’t.
I KNEW YOU ONCE
Everyone forgets something. Not everyone survives it.
I KNEW YOU ONCE is a tense psychological thriller set in a landscape as beautiful as it is unforgiving — where the quiet can be deadly, and nothing is ever quite what it seems.



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🌌 Some storms never pass… they stay.

When the night sky tore apart, they arrived—alien refugees fleeing a horror far worse than extinction.
In the wreckage of their escape, a mother and daughter stumble into a small town where strangers are noticed… and secrets are dangerous.

Do you believe in ghosts? Or do you trust what you see?

When a mother’s young daughter begins speaking to an unseen presence named Vatavia, it’s easy to dismiss as imagination. But as the "friend" becomes more real—and more disturbing—the mother is drawn into a spiral of fear, doubt, and disbelief.
Is her daughter playing a game? Is something more sinister at work? Or is the fragile veil between reality and something else beginning to tear?
What happens when you stop believing it’s just in your head?
The Daughter’s Friend is a gripping psychological thriller that challenges everything you think you know about truth, trust, and the power of belief. With chilling twists and a creeping sense of dread, it asks the ultimate question:
What do you believe?
Just because you can't see someone, just because you can't hear someone, does that really mean that they're not there. Maybe you're just not looking, not listening?

A must read for fans of mysteries and thrillers! A story to keep you turning every page and guessing until the very last minute.

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🩸 Why Psychological Thrillers Work Best When the Threat Is Someone Normal (By Roberta Huckle)

Introduction: The Monsters Next Door
We like to think we’d recognise danger if it knocked on our door. We imagine monsters with clear warning signs — the unblinking stare, the too-wide smile, the shadow in the alleyway.
But what if the real danger looks ordinary? A friend, a neighbour, a spouse?
That’s where psychological thrillers find their power. The fear doesn’t come from creatures or killers we can run from — it comes from the unsettling idea that evil might already be sitting across the table.

1. Familiarity Breeds Fear
A threat we recognise — a partner, a boss, a best friend — pierces our defences in a way that an obvious villain never could. When a seemingly ordinary person begins to unravel, readers feel the same confusion and betrayal the protagonist does.
It’s not just suspense — it’s intimacy turned inside out.
That’s why stories like Gone Girl or You stay with us. They whisper:
“What if the people I trust most are capable of something unspeakable?”

2. The Psychological Mirror
Readers see themselves in the characters — and that’s the most chilling part.
A well-crafted psychological thriller doesn’t simply show us the darkness out there; it reflects the shadows we carry within.
Anger, envy, guilt — we’ve all felt them. The difference between an ordinary person and a dangerous one is often just a single, irreversible decision.
In The Wife That Broke, I explored exactly that: how love, when twisted by fear and possession, can become something unrecognisable.
When readers glimpse that transformation, they’re forced to ask: What would I do in her place?

3. The Unreliable Comfort of the Everyday
Ordinary settings make extraordinary acts even more jarring.
A quiet street.
A family breakfast.
The smell of coffee masking the scent of dread.
Psychological thrillers thrive on that contradiction — the safety of the familiar clashing with the danger beneath. When the setting feels real, every shock hits harder because it could happen anywhere.

4. The Unmasking
Perhaps the most satisfying moment in a psychological thriller is the unmasking — not of a stranger, but of someone the reader thought they knew.
That betrayal ignites both horror and fascination.
It’s not just about discovering who did it; it’s about realising how easily anyone might.
Because deep down, we know: everyone hides something.

Conclusion: The Ordinary is the Most Dangerous
We fear what we understand too well.
That’s why the most chilling villains aren’t monsters in the dark — they’re the people who smile as they pass you on the street, whose lives look just like yours.
Psychological thrillers remind us that trust is fragile, perception is flawed, and that sometimes, the real danger doesn’t wear a mask at all.

The Non Dead Wife
A psychological thriller. THE NON DEAD WIFE.

Unravel a chilling mystery in "The Non Dead Wife," where Emma's perfect life spirals into chaos upon discovering that her husband's first wife—thought to be dead—is alive and lurking in her garden. As secrets unravel and trust crumbles, can Emma confront the terrifying truth and protect everything she holds dear? Dive into this heart-pounding psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page!

As secrets and lies entwine, Emma is left questioning the very foundation of her existence. Can she trust anyone, even those closest to her?

With every twist and turn, the stakes are raised, leaving Emma grappling with the ultimate question: "Aren't you supposed to be dead? And didn't that happen seven years ago?"

Join Emma on an unimaginable journey through a web of deceit as she confronts her deepest fears and makes choices to protect everything she holds dear. Will she find the strength to fight back against an unseen enemy determined to tear her life apart?

"The Non Dead Wife" is a spine-chilling and mysterious thriller that is sure to captivate you from the very first page

They came for peace.
A quiet village. A new beginning.
But when a stranger whispers, “I knew you once,”
everything starts to unravel.
Snow falls. Memories twist.
And beneath the surface of their perfect life,
something dark is waiting to be remembered.
I KNEW YOU ONCE — a haunting psychological thriller about identity, memory,
and the secrets we bury to survive.

SHADOWS BY THE STREAM
Dark. Emotional. Unforgettable. Shadows by the Stream — a thriller that lingers.


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The house was colder than she remembered.
Not the kind of cold that bit through skin, but the kind that lived inside walls — that seeped through wood and stone and memory.
May stood in the doorway, her mother’s keys still in her hand, dust motes drifting like ghosts in the thin slice of light. Every board creaked in recognition. Every shadow seemed to shift, as if the house had been holding its breath for her return.
She told herself it was just a place. Just timber and plaster. Just a house.
But the air disagreed. It moved differently here — slower, heavier — as though it had a pulse of its own.
Outside, the stream whispered through the trees, low and rhythmic. It sounded almost like her name.
She closed the door, and the sound vanished.
But something else moved behind it — a soft drag across the floorboards upstairs, deliberate and patient.
She wasn’t alone.
And the house knew it.

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