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The Anatomy of Shadows-Book 1- The Cadaver's Smile by FCombest
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By day, Elena Marlowe is a brilliant medical student-disciplined, ambitious, and admired for her precision. By night, she is something else entirely. Her trophies are small, almost forgettable: a driver's license slipped from a victim's pocket, a name reduced to plastic and ink. But to Elena, each one is proof of control, a reminder that she alone decides who survives and who disappears. When a string of vanishings begins to draw the attention of a relentless detective, Elena's carefully constructed world starts to fracture. And then there's Adrian-the one man she cannot bring herself to kill. His presence awakens something she has never allowed herself to feel: connection. But love and obsession are dangerous companions. As the walls close in, Elena must decide whether to cling to her rituals or surrender to the terrifying possibility of being seen. The Cadaver's Smile is the chilling first installment of The Anatomy of Shadows, a psychological thriller series that peers into the darkest corners of desire, control, and survival.
The Watcher's Script by FCombest
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The Watcher's Script is a psychological thriller about obsession, identity, and the power of narrative. Zora, a confident and intuitive writer, begins to sense that someone is watching her-not with lust, but with ritualistic intent. As her boyfriend Eli becomes the target of a chilling fixation, Zora is drawn into a web of eerie notes, symbolic gifts, and a stranger's attempt to rewrite her life. When Eli is murdered and a notebook filled with obsessive mantras surfaces, Zora realizes she's not just being followed-she's being authored. But Zora refuses to be a character in someone else's story. As she uncovers the killer's shrine and deciphers the twisted script written around her, she begins her own counter-narrative-one of survival, clarity, and reclamation. With October 14 marked as the killer's final offering, Zora prepares not to hide, but to confront. What unfolds is a tense, intimate battle between author and subject, watcher and watched, where the true power lies in who controls the ending.
The Heart is the People  by FCombest
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The novel follows Maya, a young woman who discovers that a fading mural in her city hides carvings of forgotten names-an erased history that powerful developer Marcus Hale is determined to destroy. With her sister Nia, her friend Diego, and the scholar Alex, Maya begins to uncover the truth behind the mural, realizing it represents not just memory but resistance. As Hale escalates his campaign of intimidation-branding them agitators, burning evidence, and even taking hostages-the mural becomes a rallying point for the community. What begins as a fight to save a wall transforms into a movement to defend dignity, history, and the voices of the silenced. The struggle reaches its peak when Hale unleashes his forces in the open, attempting to erase the mural before the eyes of the city. But Maya and her allies refuse to scatter, standing arm‑in‑arm with their neighbors in a human shield. Their chant-"The heart is the people"-echoes louder than Hale's machines, and his own men falter under the weight of truth and unity. In the aftermath, Hale's empire collapses, and the mural endures as a living symbol of resilience. The story closes not with finality, but with renewal: the people reclaim their city, the mural grows with new names, and Maya realizes that the fight was never just about saving the past-it was about shaping a future built on memory, justice, and hope.