She watched a killer hunt. The people she trusted were hiding everything.
I haven't left my apartment in two years.
Not since the night I watched my best friend get attacked and no one believed me. Not since the police dismissed my testimony because I'd been drinking. Not since Claire disappeared from my life, and I blamed myself for not saving her.
Now I watch the world through a webcam feed of the Gullhaven Boardwalk. It's safer this way. Predictable. I catalog the regulars—Jogger Jim, Bench Betty, Phone Guy. I know their patterns. I understand their routines.
Then she appears.
A woman exhibiting behavior I've never seen before. Erratic movements. Responding to invisible instructions. Terror written across her body as she backs away from empty space.
By morning, she's been reported missing from the Gullhaven Grand Hotel.
I should let it go.
Everyone tells me I'm unreliable. My therapist says I'm projecting trauma from Claire's attack. The detective says I'm seeing patterns that don't exist. But I'm a data analyst—pattern recognition is what I do.
And the pattern is undeniable.
More victims appear on my webcam, all exhibiting the same terrifying choreography before vanishing toward the beach. The hotel's night manager gives suspiciously identical statements about each disappearance. Evidence keeps corrupting on my devices. My therapist pushes stronger medication to ‘help with my paranoid thinking.’
The people who should be helping me solve this case seem determined to make me doubt my own sanity.
But what if my instincts are right? What if the two people I've been trusting—my therapist and the detective investigating the disappearances—are the very ones I should fear?
I've spent two years being told I'm unreliable.
Now I'm going to prove everyone wrong.
Or die trying.
What She Saw is a psychological thriller novella with plenty of twists and a deeply unsettling ending that will stay with you long after the final page.
Genre: Mystery
I haven't left my apartment in two years.
Not since the night I watched my best friend get attacked and no one believed me. Not since the police dismissed my testimony because I'd been drinking. Not since Claire disappeared from my life, and I blamed myself for not saving her.
Now I watch the world through a webcam feed of the Gullhaven Boardwalk. It's safer this way. Predictable. I catalog the regulars—Jogger Jim, Bench Betty, Phone Guy. I know their patterns. I understand their routines.
Then she appears.
A woman exhibiting behavior I've never seen before. Erratic movements. Responding to invisible instructions. Terror written across her body as she backs away from empty space.
By morning, she's been reported missing from the Gullhaven Grand Hotel.
I should let it go.
Everyone tells me I'm unreliable. My therapist says I'm projecting trauma from Claire's attack. The detective says I'm seeing patterns that don't exist. But I'm a data analyst—pattern recognition is what I do.
And the pattern is undeniable.
More victims appear on my webcam, all exhibiting the same terrifying choreography before vanishing toward the beach. The hotel's night manager gives suspiciously identical statements about each disappearance. Evidence keeps corrupting on my devices. My therapist pushes stronger medication to ‘help with my paranoid thinking.’
The people who should be helping me solve this case seem determined to make me doubt my own sanity.
But what if my instincts are right? What if the two people I've been trusting—my therapist and the detective investigating the disappearances—are the very ones I should fear?
I've spent two years being told I'm unreliable.
Now I'm going to prove everyone wrong.
Or die trying.
What She Saw is a psychological thriller novella with plenty of twists and a deeply unsettling ending that will stay with you long after the final page.
Genre: Mystery
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