To the Grave

by Bryce Gillis

In a town where everyone knows your history, some threats never truly disappear.

When violence returns to a life he thought he had left behind, Jimmie is forced to make decisions that test the limits of loyalty, morality, and silence. Protection comes at a cost — and every choice ripples outward, touching family, memory, and identity.

To the Grave is literary suspense — tense, intimate, and deeply human. This is not a story about justice served or villains defeated, but about what remains when fear has passed and guilt settles in.

Dark, reflective, and emotionally grounded, this novel is for readers who want suspense with weight — stories that ask not what happened, but what it did to the people left behind.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 13, 2026

About the author

Bryce Gillis is a schoolteacher and coach living in Calgary, Alberta with his beautiful wife and their two daughters. Despite moving away for work in 2011, he forever calls Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, home. Every summer he travels to Canada’s east coast with his family to enjoy vacationing near Inverness Beach. He began writing for enjoyment, and at the age of thirty-eight he developed his debut novel, which displays forces of love vs. revenge and good vs. evil. He has no plans to stop here, as progress is underway on his next story.

Reviews

[Cindy Vaillancourt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommended couldn’t put it down .