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Blackthorne Inn rests quietly after midnight, its floorboards settled, its lamps dimmed, its old bones breathing in the dark. But when the landline rings at exactly 12:00 a.m., Ivy Blackthorne knows something is wrong.

The caller never speaks.

Not at first.

Just silence.

Heavy. Intentional. Listening.

By the second night, the inn feels colder.

...

Blackthorne Inn has always been a place of warmth, tradition, and familiar faces. And few guests are more beloved than Janis and Greg Kholler, who have celebrated their anniversary at the inn for twenty years. But when they arrive this year, something is wrong.

Greg is different.

His smile is too bright.

His temper snaps without warning.

His...

Blackthorne Inn has always been alive. Ivy Blackthorne grew up hearing its creaks, its sighs, its quiet warnings. But after her parents’ sudden death, the house feels different—colder, watchful, almost grieving.

When Ivy returns to run the inn alone, she expects dust, silence, and the ache of memory. She doesn’t expect a stranger who walks its...

Spring is supposed to bring renewal. In these stories, it brings something else— things that thaw, rise, grow, and remember.

In SPRING, a collection of unsettling short thrillers, melting snow and warming soil uncover secrets that were never meant to surface:

• A mountain thaw exposes a deadly mudslide—and something buried in the ridge that...

Autumn isn’t cozy in these stories. It’s watching. It’s waiting. It’s the moment the cold air carries something you hoped stayed buried.

In FALL, a collection of chilling short thrillers, the season turns sinister as ordinary October nights twist into unforgettable nightmares:

• A Halloween yard display becomes terrifyingly real when a “...

Summer isn’t sunshine in these stories. It’s danger. It’s heat. It’s the moment something steps out of the water, the desert, the woods — and watches.

In SUMMER, a collection of chilling short thrillers, ordinary warm nights twist into unforgettable nightmares:

• A coastal research station discovers skiffs arriving with impossible cargo — and...

Winter doesn’t just bring cold. It brings silence. It brings isolation. It brings the things that move in the snow when no one else is watching.

In WINTER, a collection of chilling short thrillers, blizzards, frozen nights, and long‑buried secrets turn the season into something deadly:

• A frontier cabin becomes a battleground when something...

Winter on Mackinac Island was supposed to save Raven Hart. After surviving obsession, betrayal, and a cliffside nightmare, she rebuilt her life with cameras, locks, routines—and Roxy, the dog who never leaves her side. For the first time in months, the quiet season feels almost safe.

Until a single red rose appears on her porch.

Trevor Hale—the...

Raven Hart finally has a rhythm again, quiet mornings, healing sunlight, and the fragile peace she fought hard to reclaim. Mackinac Island was supposed to be her refuge, a place where danger couldn’t follow and silence didn’t feel like a threat.

But safety shatters the moment a single envelope appears on her porch.

The message inside is...

When widowed mother Mila Hale moves to Clover Creek with her young daughter, Lily, she’s desperate for a fresh start—and grateful when a welcoming mothers’ group opens its arms to her.

The Good Mother Pact seems like everything she’s been missing: friendship, support, and a community that truly cares. But its charismatic leader, Jenifer Rowan,...

The Widow’s Field is a tense, atmospheric domestic thriller about a woman returning home to a town that remembers more than it should — and a danger that remembers her.

When Rose Dalton comes back to Harrow Creek to care for her mother, she expects guilt, grief, and the slow unraveling of dementia. She doesn’t expect the warnings. She doesn’t...

When Avery Carter accepts a stranger’s offer to pay for her son’s medication, she tells herself it’s just luck. When he offers her a last‑minute babysitting job that pays double, she tells herself it’s just timing. But the moment she steps into the beautiful house on Wren Street, she knows something is wrong.

The rooms are too bare. The nursery...

Survivor of Mackinac Island

An atmospheric psychological thriller set on Mackinac Island

Raven Hart arrives on Mackinac Island seeking one thing quiet. After escaping a suffocating marriage and a life that never felt like her own, the off‑season calm feels like salvation. Her rented cottage is warm, sunlit, and anonymous. The island is emptying...