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Lethal Anxiety: The Midnight Draft
Paperback
Series: The Perfect Spiral Psych Thriller
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 13 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
His nightmares built the career. Her devotion kept them clean.
Every morning, Nadia Segrave descends to her husband's study and reads what his sleeping mind has written: dark, violent, brilliant. She gathers the pages. She decides what the world gets to see.
Dean is the genius. Nadia is the editor of his darkest secrets.
For twelve years, the arrangement has been flawless. The Mendocino house is a cathedral. The routines are a religion. And the truth buried in the redwood grove stays exactly where she left it.
Then Dean's agent sends a ghostwriter. And the midnight drafts begin to change.
Page by page, his sleeping mind is writing a murder scene-real coordinates, real details, a body in the exact hollow between the roots where Nadia once knelt in the freezing rain and made the only decision she could. The new pages are a confession. And the woman sitting across the breakfast table reads prose like a treasure map.
She came to fix the novel. She came to find her sister.
The cathedral is crumbling. Nadia will do what she has always done.
Even now.
Features: psychological thriller - coastal gothic - unreliable narrator - obsessive devotion - solving sister's murder - art as confession - domestic horror - isolated setting - caretaker gone dark - domestic entrapment - hidden crime - psychological suspense - two-hour read - short-read pacing - friendship as infiltration - cold case - revenge plot - brilliant obsessive - fog and redwoods atmosphere
25,000 words
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