Sign-In
Cart
The Sting of the Kiss
Paperback
Publisher: Alain Marcus
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your Destiny Is Not Predetermined. Until It Is.
After surviving a catastrophic car crash, neurosurgeon Joshua Jordan returns to his life changed in ways no medical science can explain.
What should have been a recovery becomes something far more disturbing.
Inside the structured world of medicine, where every symptom has a cause and every outcome a diagnosis, Joshua begins to encounter phenomena that defy explanation. Visual anomalies. Sensory distortions. A persistent presence that cannot be measured, yet refuses to disappear.
At first, he searches for answers in science.
But science has limits.
As the experiences intensify, Joshua is drawn into a deeper investigation of consciousness, mortality, and the fragile boundary between perception and reality. The clinical certainty he once relied on begins to collapse, replaced by a growing awareness that something is influencing what he sees, what he feels, and possibly what he is becoming.
More disturbing still is the realization that the patterns in his life are not random. They are precise. Repeated. Observed.
Someone has been studying him.
What feels like memory begins to resemble design.
In a world where the mind can no longer be trusted and death may not be final, Joshua is forced to confront a question that challenges everything he believes:
Was he saved or selected?
The Sting of the Kiss is a dark medical paranormal psychological thriller that blends neuroscience, suspense, and spiritual horror into a deeply unsettling narrative about identity, perception, and control.
Also in
Mystery & Thriller
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
Coffin Road: An Utterly Gripping Crime Thriller from the Author of the China Thrillers
May, Peter
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
Larsson, Stieg
Paperback
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
Big Little Truths: Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane
Hardcover
The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River
Lawhon, Ariel
Hardcover