"I wonder what hurts the most? Losing your child to suicide or to murder." - Doctor Roe - For Theodora Wallace battling St. Kathrine Academy - the disclosed private campus for politician children - something she is not. Hustling through struggles with her unique family structure and abiding by the rules of life, have her keeping tabs in her marvelous brain for days. However, life is no straight path as she becomes lead witness to a suicide on her nights watching the local beach and it doesn't make it easier when the fancied Marlowe Richard - the charming lad of the academy is the one at fault. Therapy can't even seem to tame her thoughts as she yet again gets tangled with mental health and instead of just thinking about Marlowe, begins to intertwine herself with Maxwell, his twin brother. Now, the pressing issue isn't just why Marlowe killed himself right in front of her eyes but rather what led up to that - and most importantly how much can be deceived by the public eye when drugs, unlawful practices of medicine, mental illnesses, unregistered guns and a whole brotherhood history is brought to the surface. Wondering why Marlowe killed himself won't be the only thing flashing news headlines when a massacre is coming slow and silent to everyone Marlowe threw his fated red string at. - Trigger Warning: This Is A Severely Somber And Slowburn Book. Please Read With Ease. *Priority*

It started with a lemon sorbet. Then a cold, dead body smiled. ✘ ✘ ✘ In a chance of a lifetime, Wendy Cain's innocent little crush on an infamous pariah, Leon Song, is swept up in a game of cat, mouse and murder as a dead body is found in his home... and the natural suspect being the amorously charming man. Can a simple crush acquit you murder? Or will you fall riddles to the hands of charm? Cover designed by Holly Thurston.

Even in death, the dead speak. ✘ ✘ ✘ An investigation is set off by a pair of sleuths after a recording arrives in their laps from the victim himself, detailing how he set off the very murder that killed him...

𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄, 𝒉𝒐𝒕, 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚. 𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐨

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]

raise your glasses high, for tomorrow we will die, and return from the ashes.

"Life is a game and everyone's playing it. Some more serious than others. It's just a constant game of people playing each other, and if you're unlucky, you get eliminated." Two psychopaths are playing to win. #1 - deranged / insanity

"If love could talk, hearts would never break." In which murder is mistaken for mercy, and love is mistaken for lies. #1 - madlove / psychopath #3 - insanity

What if a guy on the radio tells you how he died?

HOLLOW PLACES, COMING SOON. four deaths. all more gruesome then the next.