Stay With Me

Jacob Miller returns to his dead brother's isolated cabin to clean up what addiction left behind. The house should have been empty.Instead, he finds Hazel.She appears without warning in dark hallways and reflected windows, wandering the decaying property like something tied to it long before Jacob arrived. She speaks about Charlie as if he never truly left. She never seems to sleep. Never leaves the grounds. And the longer Jacob stays, the more the house begins to change around her.Rooms decay overnight. Footsteps echo through empty halls. Strange music drifts from the woods after dark. A figure watches from the tree line whenever Hazel grows afraid. The cabin itself seems to breathe with her moods - growing warm and quiet when she's near, violent and rotten when she disappears.As Jacob becomes obsessed with the lonely, enigmatic woman haunting his brother's home, grief slowly curdles into dependence. Reality begins slipping apart. Time distorts. Insects crawl beneath his skin. Memories stop making sense. And somewhere beneath the house's rotting floorboards is the growing suspicion that Charlie may not have escaped the property at all.Stay With Me is a dark, atmospheric psychological horror novel about grief, addiction, loneliness, and the horrifying comfort of being needed by something that may never let you leave.

Pages: 312, Paperback, Independently published