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When Hannah Sleeps: A Clean Christian Psychological Thriller
Paperback
Series: The Gathering Light, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerChristian Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 26 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She does not remember writing it.
Seven weeks after giving birth, Hannah Garrick has learned to record everything: feeding times, naps, locked doors, charged phones, and every small fact exhaustion might steal from her.
Then she wakes to a new line in her journal:
I was awake when I wrote this.
The handwriting is hers. The memory is not.
Soon ordinary things begin shifting inside Hannah's home. A baby monitor whispers her name. Personal belongings move between rooms. Messages are sent from her phone. New sentences appear beneath the careful records she depends on to hold her days together.
Every incident has a reasonable explanation.
Hannah is exhausted. Hannah is anxious. Hannah should rest. Hannah should receive care.
Her husband turns to Mercy Hill Church, the community that has surrounded their family with meals, prayer, and gentle concern. But the more help Hannah receives, the less authority she seems to have over her own home, her own records, and the story being told about her.
Then she discovers an archived prayer request for another postpartum mother.
The same misplaced objects. The same household sounds. The same language about heightened vigilance, wise counsel, and resting from fear.
And the same ministry quietly carrying interpretation for a woman no one believed.
Hannah knows she needs medical care. She also knows needing help does not make every observation false. With her sleeping son beside her and her credibility narrowing by the day, she must separate symptom from evidence, kindness from control, and genuine faith from the polished language used to bury an inconvenient truth.
Because someone has entered her home, touched her private record, and learned exactly when Hannah sleeps.
Perfect for readers who love Christian psychological suspense, domestic thrillers, unreliable-perception mysteries, church secrets, morally complex faith stories, postpartum heroines, and tense fiction about women fighting to retain their own voices.
Read When Hannah Sleeps-a gripping psychological suspense novel about the terrifying distance between being cared for and being managed.
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