It starts with a thought.

A dare leads a teenage boy into the abandoned Black Vale Asylum. Days later, he’s dead, ruled a suicide.

Liv doesn’t believe it.

When she starts digging for answers, thoughts that aren’t hers begin slipping out loud. Dark impulses spread through her friends like a contagion. As the line between thought and action collapses, paranoia takes hold and no one can trust their own mind.

The trail leads back to Evelyn Harrow, a patient whose descent into madness began inside Black Vale decades earlier.

Now the curse is loose again.

And once it starts… it doesn’t let go.

Perfect for readers who enjoy psychological horror, supernatural suspense, small-town mysteries, and creeping dread. Fans of A24-style horror and stories where reality slowly unravels will feel right at home.

Content Warning: This novel contains themes of intrusive thoughts, psychological distress, suicide, violence, death, grief, religious themes, and disturbing imagery.