The Circle of Solace: A Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798311054829)

Novella

Ethan Shaw has spent months trying to survive the loss of Chloe, one ordinary day at a time. Then, on a wet city street, he sees her. Not a stranger who looks like her. Chloe.

By the next night, words are appearing in his bathroom mirror. Her voice is turning up on recordings. And someone has been inside his apartment.

What begins as a private breakdown turns into something far worse when Detective Chen starts pulling at the loose threads around Chloe's death and uncovers signs of a hidden ritual network moving through the city. Old symbols. Missing evidence. A stolen locket. A circle of believers who do not worship the dead so much as use them.

As Ethan is pulled deeper into the mystery, every clue points toward an impossible truth: his grief is not just making him vulnerable. It may be the key to opening something that should never be opened at all.

Now Ethan and Chen are racing against a secretive occult group that knows exactly how to turn love, memory, and guilt into a weapon. If they fail, Ethan will lose more than his sanity. He may become the final piece in a ritual built to feed on the living and wear the faces of the dead.

The Circle of Solace is a fast, atmospheric supernatural suspense novella filled with ghostly encounters, occult dread, and a tense emotional mystery at its core.

• A grieving protagonist pulled into a terrifying paranormal mystery
• A relentless detective chasing a hidden ritual circle
• Ghostly apparitions, mirrors, recordings, and stolen relics
• Occult suspense with emotional stakes and a strong final payoff