BECOMING DECLAN

The first thing Declan Hart ever stole was a feeling.Declan Hart has spent his entire life watching other people.Watching how easily they laugh. How naturally they belong. How effortlessly they are loved.From the outside, Declan is quiet, awkward, forgettable. But beneath the surface, something inside him has been growing for years-something patient. Something hungry.At first, he only watches.Then he begins taking.A glance. A feeling. A moment of intimacy that was never offered to him.As the years pass and people connected to Declan begin disappearing, he carefully constructs a mask of normality while his inner world fractures further from reality. Only two people ever truly see him: Eli Sawyer-the loyal childhood friend desperate to save the humanity still buried inside him.And Detective Kelly Dungey, the investigator, convinced Declan is hiding something far worse than anyone imagines.As obsession turns to violence and fantasy consumes reality, Declan is forced to confront the terrifying truth about himself: Some monsters are not born.They are slowly assembled, piece by piece, in the dark. The more Declan Hart changes, the less human he feels - and the harder it becomes to tell what is real and what is him.This is how Declan Hart began.Becoming Declan is a psychological horror novel about isolation, obsession, and the terrifying lengths a mind will go to be seen.

Pages: 578, Paperback, Independently published