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Short Term Effect
Short Term Effect is the final book in the Short Term Trilogy, a psychological thriller about memory, power, and a woman who refuses to be erased.
Angelica Mason escaped Reidsville South in the rain, barefoot, holding a porcelain bowl and thirty-four paper napkins covered in her own handwriting. Now she’s hiding in a roadside motel with Jeremy, the young man who drove the getaway car, while the evening news calls her a danger to herself and others.
Her memory is failing. Her house is being sold. A guardian she never chose has the legal right to decide where she lives and what she’s allowed to say. And Halcyon Continuum, the company behind Reidsville South, wants her back.
But Thomas never trusted memory, not even his own. Every Wednesday for a year, he copied the pages of his diary and locked them away in a bank vault under a name no one would recognize. Box 814 holds what he couldn’t say out what he saw, who he told, and why someone needed his wife to believe she was a killer.
To bring it into the light, Angelica will have to do the one thing her illness makes almost stand before a judge, a camera, and a room full of the people who erased her, and remember.
Tender, harrowing, and fiercely human, Short Term Effect brings the Short Term Trilogy to an unforgettable close. It’s for readers who love unreliable narrators, courtroom tension, and stories about the people we lose, and the truths we refuse to let go.
Angelica Mason escaped Reidsville South in the rain, barefoot, holding a porcelain bowl and thirty-four paper napkins covered in her own handwriting. Now she’s hiding in a roadside motel with Jeremy, the young man who drove the getaway car, while the evening news calls her a danger to herself and others.
Her memory is failing. Her house is being sold. A guardian she never chose has the legal right to decide where she lives and what she’s allowed to say. And Halcyon Continuum, the company behind Reidsville South, wants her back.
But Thomas never trusted memory, not even his own. Every Wednesday for a year, he copied the pages of his diary and locked them away in a bank vault under a name no one would recognize. Box 814 holds what he couldn’t say out what he saw, who he told, and why someone needed his wife to believe she was a killer.
To bring it into the light, Angelica will have to do the one thing her illness makes almost stand before a judge, a camera, and a room full of the people who erased her, and remember.
Tender, harrowing, and fiercely human, Short Term Effect brings the Short Term Trilogy to an unforgettable close. It’s for readers who love unreliable narrators, courtroom tension, and stories about the people we lose, and the truths we refuse to let go.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 27, 2026
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