Whispers, Noir

After a public breakdown derails his screenwriting career, Calvin Reade retreats to the one place he swore never to return—his childhood home in the woods of Maine. The house has stood untouched since a fire claimed his mother’s life decades ago. But it hasn’t been waiting silently.

Determined to confront his past and finish a script that’s haunted him for years, Calvin finds the house strangely preserved—and disturbingly alive with echoes of memory. Script pages appear that he didn’t write. Footage surfaces that shouldn’t exist. And a sealed room plays a piano that no one has touched in decades.

As dreams bleed into waking life and family truths unravel, Calvin must confront the possibility that his story isn’t his to tell—and that someone or something wants to correct the record.

In this chilling gothic domestic thriller, memory is unreliable, identity is a shifting script, and the past is more than just unfinished business. What if the biggest lie isn’t what you’ve forgotten… but what you chose to remember?

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This novel is part of REVERB!, an interconnected collection of standalone supernatural thrillers.

In REVERB!, twelve standalone supernatural thrillers unravel the dark space between the spoken and the unspeakable. Each story drops you into a different haunted setting—abandoned houses, cursed forests, forgotten towns—where a single whisper sparks a chilling unraveling of truth, memory, and fate.

From grieving parents and haunted investigators to broken lovers and trapped strangers, every protagonist faces a unique descent into the unknown. These aren’t just ghost stories. They’re psychological collisions, where what’s buried doesn’t stay buried, and what speaks in the dark may not want to be understood—only obeyed.

With atmospheric suspense, slow-burning dread, and unforgettable twists, this series pulls you to the edge and dares you to listen. Because once the whisper starts, it never stops.

REVERB!

The past doesn’t haunt you. It waits.