The Sheriff's Son
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Last published Mon, Jun 9, 2025
"You don't get to call me a monster. Not until you've read everything."
Titus Sawyers is the perfect cop in a quiet coastal town. Sharp. Controlled. Married. Good on paper.
But behind the badge is a man made of bruises and silence, raised by the very violence he now pretends to protect people from. He was five when his mother died. Fifteen when he stopped being a victim. Twenty-three when the bodies started showing up.
Each one staged. Each one carrying a message.
The press calls it justice. His department calls it a manhunt.
Titus calls it familiar.
Told through a first person POV confessions, case files, letters, and memory, The Sheriff's Son is a slow-burn psychological thriller about generational violence, buried truths, broken boys trying to build new lives-and what happens when the line between protector and predator disappears.
Because justice was never the point. Survival was.
***THIRD Place in the Uno category in The Card Awards hosted by the lovely Yumei <3
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