An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Wattpad. Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker - mutilated in a way he has witnessed once before, in Africa, years ago and thousands of miles away. The police in Nepal, anxious to quell a scandal, close the case and declare the victim a suicide. Only Paul is left to search for answers. He reaches out to his farflung tribe of fellow backpackers for help, and his discoveries lead him to a terrible conclusion: a killer is stalking the international backpacker trail, preying on victims in wild places far beyond the reach of any authorities. A killer whom Paul may already know. Finding the murderer becomes an obsession that leads Paul from Himalayan peaks, through the jungles of Indonesia, across the bleak Sahara desert -- and into some of the darkest places imaginable... Dark Places won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reviews "You're hooked ... the characters are delightfully delineated ... beautifully controlled ... Evans contrives to slip the necessary specialist net-head detail into the plot without being boring or patronising. He can also pin down a character with a few details deftly brushed in ... A pacy thriller for the 21st century." - The Times "Anyone would enjoy Evans' clever, relentlessly absorbing debut thriller that becomes a lot more than just another serial-killer mystery." - The Ottawa Citizen "In this haunting suspense debut, Evans takes the reader on a page-turning adventure across five continents ... (a) spooky, inventive tale." - Publishers Weekly

(Undergoing heavy editing.) You are on a tour to the most beautiful state of India- Rajasthan. Pretty excited, you start the tour visiting many sites. But what happens when you step into the Bhangarh Fort? The Haunted Bhangarh Fort. A historical site that is marked as one of the ten most Haunted places in India. No one is allowed to step into that place before Sunrise and after Sunset, as an order by the Indian government. This tragic and horrific story is about two youngsters. Nandini and Nikhil, who visit this fort as an adventure tour but end up getting caught in the clutches of an evil spirit. Nandini's past somehow is linked to that of the Fort. Read on and find out to know if Nandini can free herself and fight that evil force along with Nikhil. Please see: This is not a real story. Please please see: Prefer staying away if you're a grammar Nazi and are not capable of giving constructive criticism. The initial chapters were written with a rather immature narration. It improves as the story progresses. But STILL, if you want to read a better piece of this book, you can start, when it undergoes heavy editing. :) Highest rank #1 in horror. (17/06/16) Happy Reading. Love, -Mansi