Ingenue

by Ryan Thayer

Persephone is a 16 year old, insecure girl, who lost her parents tragically at the age of 12. While Persephone struggles against her battle with self acceptance, she learns that she has psychic abilities that allow her to enter anyone's mind at will. Now wrestling with her ever-growing power, she has to manage both her social life and her supernatural one. However, when Persephone finds herself pitted against a deranged serial killer, she is forced to either master her gift or watch her loved ones die around her. Ingenue is book 1 of an intended series.

182 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2019

About the author

I started writing on Reddit, making short horror stories while trying to find my voice. I knew I liked telling stories but needed to refine my ability to do so. I continued to write - slowly at first but eventually was at it every single night. The better I got at it the more it consumed my free time.

Ingenue was my first leap from short form writing to Novel length. I struggled with it at first but eventually found myself unable to step away from the keyboard as the story spilled out of me, bit by bit.

Once the series is complete I intend on writing other stories, most of which will have a foot or two in the genre of horror.

Horror as a whole feels lacking to me and I feel there is a lot of room for innovation. I hope to throw my hat in the ring and show people that, with writing, you can do anything you want so long as its carefully planned and well thought out.