The Loop: 1

Some promises don't end when you die. Some promises are why you keep dying.Vivian has a good life: a warm husband, a small son, a small Arkansas town built over hot springs. She also has a visitor. Something stands in the corner of her bedroom at 2:13 a.m. - something that leaves handprints high on the wall and grins with teeth the yellow of old paper."You know me," it whispers. And the terrible thing is - it's right.Her therapist says it's trauma. Her mother says it's drama. But the memories bleeding through her ordinary days are not hers: a desert woman with a marked wrist. A girl who remembers dying. Spirals painted in ash on a cliff at dusk, and a promise spoken across lifetimes.Vivian isn't being haunted. She's being remembered. Because in her first life, she made a vow - and the vow is still keeping score.A dark supernatural thriller of past lives, broken vows, and the thing that refuses to forget her - first in the Loop series.Content advisory: depictions of psychological trauma, panic attacks, dissociation, child endangerment, death, medical emergencies, and spiritual or paranormal themes.