Lethal Anxiety: The Glass House
(2026)(A book in the Perfect Spiral Psych Thriller series)
A novel by Mara Payne
Your house loves you. Your husband loves you. Your best friend will save you.
None of this is true.
Mara Payne designed the Glass House to be the perfect home—intelligent, intuitive, and protective. She programmed the voice that would comfort. She built the walls that would cradle her.
Then the house stopped being a cocoon and became a cage.
When the heated floors turn cold, when rooms lock from the outside, when everyone’s evidence contradicts her memories, Mara realizes the trap isn’t electronic. It’s intimate.
Her husband believes the doctors. The house confirms their diagnosis. And with psychiatric transport waiting and reality slipping from her grasp, Mara faces a choice: surrender her sanity, or fight the monster she created.
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Features: psychological thriller • smart home • AI paranoia • domestic suspense • gaslighting • trapped woman • unreliable perception • two-hour read • tech paranoia horror • tech thriller short • Domestic entrapment • short-read pacing • betrayal
29,000 words
Genre: Mystery
None of this is true.
Mara Payne designed the Glass House to be the perfect home—intelligent, intuitive, and protective. She programmed the voice that would comfort. She built the walls that would cradle her.
Then the house stopped being a cocoon and became a cage.
When the heated floors turn cold, when rooms lock from the outside, when everyone’s evidence contradicts her memories, Mara realizes the trap isn’t electronic. It’s intimate.
Her husband believes the doctors. The house confirms their diagnosis. And with psychiatric transport waiting and reality slipping from her grasp, Mara faces a choice: surrender her sanity, or fight the monster she created.
* * *
Features: psychological thriller • smart home • AI paranoia • domestic suspense • gaslighting • trapped woman • unreliable perception • two-hour read • tech paranoia horror • tech thriller short • Domestic entrapment • short-read pacing • betrayal
29,000 words
Genre: Mystery
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