The Lost Turn

by A. Shchypanskyi

Twenty years ago, Sarah left that house behind. Or so she thought. When a letter arrives—unsigned, unmarked, yet unmistakably hers—it calls her back to the crumbling house at the edge of town. The place where something burned. The place where something was buried. But what Sarah finds isn’t just dust and memory. It’s the other version of herself. The protector. The girl who never left. As the rooms begin to breathe and the walls whisper her name, Sarah must confront the fractured truth of her identity, the chilling games of her childhood, and the voices that never stopped recording. The Lost Turn is a psychological horror novel about memory, trauma, and the terrifying cost of forgetting. Atmospheric, layered, and deeply haunting—it explores what happens when your mind turns against you.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 21, 2025

About the author

Hi. Many some broken, some waiting. Over time, they’ll find their form and appear.
The genres vary — from metaphysical fiction to dark fantasy, from fractured memory to imagined futures.
Thanks for reading.

Reviews

[Missy Wright · Rating 1 out of 5]

Won this in a Goodreads giveaway. I'm so confused by what I just read, it feels like it has to have been written by ai.

[c · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m grateful for winning this book in a giveaway and getting the chance to read it. I do get what the book is trying to do, but I just don’t think it hits the mark. There is some potential, but I think it’s too vague and repetitive to really be a true spooky dark tale. It’s a neat idea and I like the concept but most of the writing is just fluff. The narrator goes on and on about the same things and at some point the book was dragging towards the end. Maybe this is to reference the struggle with mental illness and I just couldn’t relate, but overall, I wish there was more thought into how the flow of the story would go.

[Mariah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very twisty book, i definitely was on the edge of my seat reading

[Demetria Adams · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was definitely not for me. Disjointed and annoyingly repetitive with a plot that went in a circle. It may be AI written and I wouldn't have read it had I known that.