Burn

by Luke Walker, Baynam Books Press (Editor)

When Steve Crossley is called into his manager’s office, he doesn’t expect to be met by two detectives and the news that his wife and children are dead. He knows it’s impossible—they’re away visiting family, safe and sound. But the police have bodies. They have personal possessions. They even have phone records.
As reality twists into nightmare, Steve is pulled into a relentless game of manipulation and fear, where someone has gone to horrifying lengths to make him believe the impossible. Every move he makes draws the threat closer to his family, and whoever is behind this wants more than blood—they want to destroy him completely.
Burn is a taut, nerve-shredding thriller that how far would you go to protect the people you love when you can’t trust what’s real?

415 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 9, 2025

About the author

Luke Walker has been writing horror and dark thrillers for most of his life. His horror titles include the new novel Burn as well as The Ninth Circle, Winter Graves, The Nameless, The Day Of The New Gods, The Mirror Of The Nameless, The Kindred, Pandemonium and The Dead Room and others. Several of his short stories have been published online and in magazines/books. His speculative thriller Terminal State, written under the name Rob Harrison, is out now. Luke's next novels Chaos and The Fall will be published by Baynam Books Press.

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He is forty-eight and lives in England with his wife and cat.