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The Ember Path
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Paeyton Daniells knows how cults work. She grew up in one.
Now she dismantles them for a living.
Investigative journalist Paeyton Daniells has spent her career exposing predators who hide behind charm, power, and carefully crafted lies. So when a series of disappearances leads her to a secluded spiritual retreat deep in the East Texas woods, she knows exactly what she's walking into.
Or so she thinks.
The Ember Path Sanctuary promises healing, clarity, and transformation to those searching for meaning. Its followers speak of peace with unsettling devotion. Its charismatic founder, Caleb Newsome, offers warmth instead of control, comfort instead of fear, and a philosophy built around one dangerous idea:
Heat is not harm.
As Paeyton infiltrates the isolated community to uncover the truth behind the missing girls connected to the retreat, she finds herself drawn deeper into a world where manipulation feels like compassion, surrender masquerades as healing, and every answer leads to more unsettling questions.
But the longer she stays, the harder it becomes to separate performance from belief... and predator from protector.
Because The Ember Path doesn't force people to stay.
It simply convinces them they were lost before they arrived.
A slow-burning psychological thriller filled with tension, obsession, cult dynamics, emotional manipulation, and simmering attraction, The Ember Path is perfect for readers who love dark atmospheric suspense with morally complex characters and haunting emotional stakes.
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