Psychological Thrillers

The truth isn’t waiting for Maya.

It’s hunting her.

Maya Jardine’s mother vanished when she was a baby. For her eighteenth birthday, her father promised to explain why. But when he doesn’t show, Maya’s world begins to fall apart. Then comes the voice message: his panicked scream, cut short by a single word that chills her to the bone.

Dawn.

Is this her mother? A warning of new beginnings? Or something more sinister? Maya struggles to uncover the truth, finding herself in a web of deceit and fear that stretches far beyond her hometown of Wareham in Dorset. Every terrifying twist and turn edges her closer to answers, and closer to a darkness that wants her silenced.

Inspired by the author’s own story of living with fear from a family member.

To be published in 2026