Wicked House Publishing

Charlie has a dark, hidden past. It includes an early induction into a troupe of young shoplifters and the accidental death of childhood mentor and troupe leader, Bill Edwards. Since Bill's death, Charlie has tried to settle into a more normal life and to walk the straight and narrow. This despite frequent, intrusive thoughts whispered in Bill's familiar voice. When Charlie travels from Indiana to Colorado to house-sit for big brother Tom, it triggers a series of unexpected events that throw Charlie into a desperate fight to rescue Tom's young daughter, Alex, from the clutches of a gang of international criminals.

An experiment gone wrong. A survivor under suspicion. A teen searching for the truth. Ostracized by her friends, Nala finds solace creating true crime content for her YouTube channel. When she breaks into her mother's private investigator files and finds evidence of multiple teen deaths during a sleep experiment in the 2000s, she's shocked to see the sole survivor is her schoolteacher. She creates a sensationalist video, outing him as a suspect. Josh is tormented by what happened during The Fovea Experiments. He gets through the days by throwing himself into his job as a teacher, and survives the nights with a little liquid courage. Nala's video puts him under suspicion once more, and the trauma he experienced as a teen takes him to breaking point. As he fights to clear his name, he discovers his worst nightmare is unfolding. Because The Fovea Experiments are happening again. And, this time, the people behind it are determined to see it through to the end. Some say the eyes are the window to the soul. Or are they a doorway to something far worse?

For fans of "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor". Noelle, a tragedy-ridden hospice worker with a unique connection to death, accepts a job caring for the dying patriarch of the reclusive August family at their lakefront manor just outside the town of Bell River, Oregon. The house does not have electricity, and the eccentric nature of the family is displayed through the grotesque artwork that lines the walls of the manor. As Noelle wrestles with her own struggles with understanding her connection to death, she is also plunged headfirst into the dark mysteries surrounding the August family. The dying patriarch who she is strangely never able to see. The head of the household incapable of giving a straight answer, and a boy unable to speak but clearly terrified of something. But above all, she must uncover the answers behind the ashen footprints she finds all over the house at night and the withered figure she sees looming at the tree line across the lake.

As a child, Josh Finley is abducted by pedophile Michael Traynor. After 19 days of unimaginable horror, he manages to escape, but in the aftermath, he has amnesia from the trauma. The last thing he remembers of his time in captivity is seeing the dead body of another of Traynor's young victims. Ten years later, FBI Special Agent John Rodriguez asks for Josh's help to try and identify the murdered boy and find where Traynor buried the remains. Rodriguez says Traynor is willing to cooperate, but on one condition: He'll only talk to Josh. In coming face-to-face with the man who has haunted him for so many years, Josh uncovers darker secrets than he ever imagined possible, and a horrifying fate that this time, he cannot hope to escape.

After the loss of her baby and subsequent divorce, Edgar Allen Poe scholar Marissa Owens leaves her tenured job as an English professor for a fresh start at her alma mater, Blackthorn University. As she begins to feel like herself again, one of her favorite students goes missing. Then, the police find the body. The investigation descends upon the campus, and familiar clues begin to surface. This triggers a disturbing memory from Marissa's own dark past at Blackthorn-one she has attempted to keep buried.