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After Tobias Brandt dies suddenly, his eldest son, with the support of his siblings, writes an obituary and has it published in the local newspaper. But instead of celebrating their father’s accomplishments and honoring his memory, it’s a scathing, contemptuous, and revealing account of the legacy of damage he caused.

Absent of closure, Tobias’s death ignites an unforeseeable sequence of events that his surviving children are forced to unravel, one perilous upset after the next.

Ashes is Book 1 in Sahar Abdulaziz’s series Evil Never Dies—a suspenseful page-turner about a dysfunctional collection of people navigating the complexities of grief, hypocrisy, and power.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2023

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Sahar Abdulaziz

21 books91 followers
2025 Winner: Fofky’s Reader’s Choice Award, Thriller category

2025 The Bookfest Awards Fall 2025 Second Place Fiction-Humor-Relationships

2025 The Bookfest Awards Fall 2025 Second Place, Fiction-Detective-Amateur Sleuths

2025 Finalist: The Book Excellence Award

2023 Finalist: Best Thriller Book Awards

2023 Semifinalist: Mystery, The Best of Indie 12th Annual Kindle Book Awards

2022 Winner, Firebird Book Award

2020 Finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Award

2019 Winner of the Daybreak Press Book Award for Muslim Fiction

2019: Essay Winner, Women in Scrutiny Anthology; Brooklyn Girls Books

2019 Finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Award

2019: Winner, Fofky’s Reader’s Choice Award

2016 Winner of the Community Written Expression Award

2016 Winner, AAN Sistah Chat Radio Women of Distinction Award

2016 Winner, Monroe County Image Awards Sistah Chat Radio Media Communication

“Abdulaziz is a master at crafting a thriller paced by truth.”


Suspense writer Sahar Abdulaziz is the author of seventeen books—including, But You LOOK Just Fine, The Broken Half, Tight Rope, Secrets That Find Us, The Gatekeeper’s Notebook, Unlikely Friends, Devoted Friends, Unexpected Friends, Forever Friends, Who Killed Gary?, Ashes, Dust, Who Killed Gary?; and her most recent, 2025 release: Who Killed Karen? Most of her work is in realistic fiction: psychological thrillers, suspense, and satire. She writes about characters facing complicated life challenges and is determined to tell their stories, eager to put pen to paper to share their compelling accounts.


Rep’d by Shaggy Dog Publications

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September 28, 2023
Ms. Abdulaziz has written a novella with characters who have varying degrees of evil. Or do they? As the saying goes ...do two wrongs make a right?
Something the reader will need to decide after meeting the cast of this book. When is revenge revenge and when is it leveling the playing field for past or present misdeeds?
Will you like each character? Will you understand them? Sympathize or be disgusted by the actions taken?
There is a great deal necessitating thought in the slim volume. Read it, think & decide.
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