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The First Victim

(2026)
(The first book in the Dr. Ava Locke series)
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An anonymous photograph. A buried secret. A hidden network that erases people.

FBI Forensic Psychologist Dr. Ava Locke survived a reconditioning facility thirteen years ago when she shouldn't have. She thought that nightmare ended when her tormentors went to prison.

She was wrong.

When a cryptic photograph arrives with a chilling message''She was the first. Find her, and you find them all—Ava defies orders and follows the trail to coastal Maine, where veterans with PTSD are vanishing without a trace.

Dr. Owen Marsh, Stillwater Cove’s maniacal director, operates behind therapeutic credentials but runs a facility where people arrive seeking healing but never leave.

Ava goes undercover. What she discovers is worse than she imagined. From the moment she checks herself in, Dr. Marsh is all too invested in Ava’s full participation in his ‘life changing’ methodology. He knows what drives her. What haunts her.

Will she win the psychological war in time to escape? Or will she be the latest victim to be erased?


Genre: Mystery

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