Scarlett Moyer is just beginning to regret leaving behind her business in Los Angeles for a deputy position in the Mayberry-like town of Whiteridge when a body is found at the abandoned, century-old Ravencrest Asylum. It isn’t the last.
As the bodies begin to surface, Scarlett struggles to find leads, each one ending where it began. When she finally uncovers something solid, it points down a path she doesn’t want to believe—one that forces her to question the innocence of the person closest to her.
As Scarlett moves closer to the truth, she becomes entangled in a web of family secrets tied to Ravencrest and the town itself. Piece by piece, the past begins to surface, and the lines between loyalty and suspicion begin to blur.
Now, she has to catch the killer, but she is not the only one hunting.
An unconventional memoir, this book explores a lifetime shaped by experiences that seemed to exist just beyond ordinary explanation. Through personal stories and reflections, it examines the strange space between skepticism and lived experience, not to convince anyone, but simply to share one perspective of a world that often felt unseen by others. At its heart, Within the World of Shadows is for those who have ever felt alone in experiences they could not explain.
Bridget Duncan claims to have a stalker… a man who seems to be a figment of Bridget’s imagination. When people in Bridget’s life start turning up murdered, the police turn their attention to Bridget as their main suspect. Bridget is desperate to prove that she is not the killer and that she is being stalked by some random man. She is also beginning to question her reality and sanity. Could she really be hallucinating a homicidal stalker and killing people in her sleep?
After being uprooted from the city and forced to move into her late grandmother’s isolated farmhouse, Cassie Rickers is certain life cannot get much worse. Then the explosions begin. As something terrifying spreads across the country, Cassie and her younger brother Trey are left fighting to survive in a world unraveling faster than they can understand it. Far from help and surrounded by growing danger, the siblings set out in search of safety, uncertain whom they can trust, what still remains human, or whether any true haven still exists at all.
