People disappear without patterns anyone wants to see. When Tyler, a medical examiner, begins encountering bodies that don’t obey anatomy or cause-of-death logic, she does what she’s always done: records what she can, omits what she must and keeps the system moving.
The disappearances aren’t random. They’re from something old and organized—predators that hide, hunt, and harvest in ways humans were never meant to notice. As violence escalates between forces acting on incomplete truths, Tyler becomes the point where knowledge either spreads or dies.
In a world that survives by staying unseen, Tyler must decide whether revealing the truth will save anyone—or simply mark her for removal.
SHUDDER is a 78,000-word work of literary horror with elements of speculative thriller, blending systemic dread with Gothic undertones of loss, failed connection and inevitable consequence.
This book is my answer to all the rejected queries I got back for DOWNLOAD. It’s modern, literary, short, character driven and adopts techniques from recently published authors, such as their pacing (see Blake Crouch) or trusting the reader to fill in the blanks. It was written over the two week Christmas break and the month I was home recovering from surgery, proving once again, if I had 40 hours/week to dedicate to writing, I could make a career of it. When agents and publishers are afraid of long-winded debut authors (I don’t count self-publishing as non-debut, considering I only sold 50 copies of both books), I give them my answer.
And yes, while this book stands on its own, I have tons of ideas for the world I just built. I hope I can get it into your hands as soon as possible.
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