Author's Curse

Every writer controls the fate of their characters... but what if the characters fight back?

​Bestselling crime novelist ZEVERON "ZEV" Mord Varela always believed his stories were flawless. He was addicted to control, a genius who saw his fictional world as a perfect machine.

​That control shatters when ZEV wakes up trapped inside his own latest novel, framed for a murder he didn't commit and wearing the victim's bloodied clothes. . Worse, the brilliant detective he created, Elijah "Eli" Thorne, is hunting him down.

​But ZEV isn't the true fugitive. His ruthless co-author, Silas Fray, is trapped with them, and he's rewriting the plot from the inside, ruthlessly turning ZEV's terrifying reality into a darkly comedic nightmare. Silas believes he's giving ZEV the character arc he always needed one written in real fear and failure.

The stakes climb higher when ZEV discovers his masterpiece's true killer, Julian Axel, has escaped into the real world, committing high-profile murders and leaving cryptic clues behind.

Now, the paralyzed genius must rely on the reluctant, pragmatic detective to survive, all while navigating the affections of Serena Jade, Eli's partner who is strangely drawn to ZEV's beautiful madness.

With the lines between fiction and reality bleeding, ZEV must overcome his crippling need for control and trust in his creation.
Because in this story, the only way to save the world is to stop writing the ending.

The book is closed. The author is trapped. And the killer is free.