Witnessed

Ray knows what it means to watch.After a workplace obsession costs him his dream job, Ray is ordered into therapy and left to rebuild a life small enough to survive: a cheap apartment, a struggling gaming stream, court-mandated sessions with Dr. Sandforson, and the woman across the alley he tells himself he can stop watching.Then Rachel steps out of the window and into his real life.She is funny, wounded, ordinary, and alive in ways Ray does not know how to deserve. For the first time in years, he begins to believe he might become someone else: someone who can leave the chair, close the stream, call his mother, and be loved without turning love into evidence.But when violence shatters the fragile life he has almost built, Ray becomes the only witness to a crime he cannot fully explain without exposing the worst thing about himself. The person helping him recover may know more than she should. The rooms that once felt safe begin to close around him.Witnessed is a dark psychological thriller about voyeurism, grief, obsession, therapy, and the terrible cost of being seen by the wrong person.

Pages: 398, Paperback, Independently published