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Close Behind: A Mile Per Mistake
How far would you go to protect your family when the system fails you—and a lurking nightmare logs every choice you make?
Inside the suffocating, metrics-driven world of the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency, twenty-six-year-old data clerk Breanna manages human desperation every day. But she isn't just typing out codes; she is quietly guarding her own island of her baby daughter, Lily, and her fiercely protective grandmother, Clara.
When an aggressive out-of-province developer uses a legal loophole to issue an immediate 30-day corporate eviction notice to her fragile grandmother, Breanna’s unyielding geography of survival shatters. A clerk’s wage leaves no room for market-rate rent, and her grandmother's failing heart cannot survive the streets.
With the official channels choked by red tape, desperation forces Breanna into the moral gray. She begins manipulating data, crossing lines, and stealing opportunities to build a legal sanctuary for her family.
But on the desolate, sub-zero stretches of the Cape Breton industrial bypass, the boundaries of the ordinary world are warping.
Every time Breanna compromises her integrity, a terrifying, localized supernatural dread creeps closer. It begins with a human-shaped void at an abandoned railway crossing. Then, a driverless car idling in rush hour. Soon, an impossible frost encrusts her office, and a predatory shadow takes up watch at her property line.
The calculations are precise. The coordinates don't lie. The nightmare isn't just following Breanna—it is a closing circle evolving to fit the shape of the rooms she lives in, waiting for her to break.
Close Behind is a gripping, low-frequency psychological thriller that maps the devastating physics of pure, unconditional love against the cold gears of institutional cruelty.
The 30-day countdown has officially begun. If you use a sin to build a sanctuary, what happens when the monster finally crosses the threshold?
Inside the suffocating, metrics-driven world of the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency, twenty-six-year-old data clerk Breanna manages human desperation every day. But she isn't just typing out codes; she is quietly guarding her own island of her baby daughter, Lily, and her fiercely protective grandmother, Clara.
When an aggressive out-of-province developer uses a legal loophole to issue an immediate 30-day corporate eviction notice to her fragile grandmother, Breanna’s unyielding geography of survival shatters. A clerk’s wage leaves no room for market-rate rent, and her grandmother's failing heart cannot survive the streets.
With the official channels choked by red tape, desperation forces Breanna into the moral gray. She begins manipulating data, crossing lines, and stealing opportunities to build a legal sanctuary for her family.
But on the desolate, sub-zero stretches of the Cape Breton industrial bypass, the boundaries of the ordinary world are warping.
Every time Breanna compromises her integrity, a terrifying, localized supernatural dread creeps closer. It begins with a human-shaped void at an abandoned railway crossing. Then, a driverless car idling in rush hour. Soon, an impossible frost encrusts her office, and a predatory shadow takes up watch at her property line.
The calculations are precise. The coordinates don't lie. The nightmare isn't just following Breanna—it is a closing circle evolving to fit the shape of the rooms she lives in, waiting for her to break.
Close Behind is a gripping, low-frequency psychological thriller that maps the devastating physics of pure, unconditional love against the cold gears of institutional cruelty.
The 30-day countdown has officially begun. If you use a sin to build a sanctuary, what happens when the monster finally crosses the threshold?
81 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2026
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