Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

RANKED #11 IN HORROR Pain? Loss? Insanity? Please. No one could even begin to think about that. True pain is when your entire body goes numb in surrender, when your brain gives in and you find yourself choking on regret, when you are so helpless your mind can't even comprehend what's happening to you. True loss is when you're holding someone you love in your arms, your clothes stained in their blood just waiting for them to open up their eyes and tell you they're okay, desperate for them to give you a smile, twitch their fingers, anything! And true insanity is when you lose every emotion you once had, every memory you made and every person you cared for within the length of one heartbeat. Kathryn Blue is kidnapped after working a late shift at her job one night. After waking up in some stranger's basement with some new allies and finding out things about the world that she can't quite accept she must escape the pain and torture of her tormentors 'games' and figure out a way to see the light of day again before it's too late.