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The Debt of Ashes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 6 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the past calls, sometimes it whispers through the walls.
Fifteen years ago, ex-pastor Daniel Cross failed to save a child from a possession that destroyed his faith, his partner, and his life. He left the church, the town, and the ashes of that house behind.
But guilt never dies-it waits.
Now, a desperate letter arrives with no name, only a plea: She is no longer my daughter. If you can, save her. Inside lies a photograph of a twelve-year-old girl whose hollow eyes stare from the same cursed wallpaper Daniel once saw burning in his nightmares.
The address on the back leads him to a decaying house on the edge of the woods-a place abandoned for decades but never truly empty.
Within its rotting walls, Daniel meets Claire Whitford and her daughter Amelia, a child speaking in voices that are not her own. As night falls, whispers crawl through the plaster, footsteps echo from rooms that no longer exist, and the air itself seems to breathe. The demon that once devoured Daniel's faith has returned, claiming Amelia as the vessel for an unfinished pact. And this time, it remembers his name.
The Debt of Ashes is a harrowing supernatural thriller about redemption, faith, and the price of unfinished promises. Viktoryia Konan weaves psychological dread and religious horror into a slow-burn descent where guilt becomes a haunting presence and the line between prayer and curse dissolves in the dark. Each chapter drips with atmosphere-the creak of old wood, the flicker of failing light, the suffocating weight of sins that refuse to stay buried.
As Daniel battles the entity that feeds on his remorse, he must decide whether salvation lies in confronting the past or in surrendering to it. Every exorcism has two victims: the possessed and the one who dares to save them.
Fans of The Exorcist, The Conjuring, and The Haunting of Hill House will find in this novel the same slow, relentless terror that lingers long after the final page.
Faith is fragile. Guilt is eternal. And some debts can only be paid in ash.
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