AT NIGHT - Short Thriller Stories
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The night doesn't sleep. It watches.
It remembers.
It feeds.
AT NIGHT is a book of short thriller stories revolving around the serious crimes of our societies. Each story is a bruise on society's skin, a quiet crime committed in plain sight. You'll meet people who look normal in the daylight... until the dark strips them down to what they really are, because there are no heroes here. Only predators pretending to be people.
So go ahead, open the first page.
But don't read it in the dark.
Because once you start, the night will know your name.
And it never forgets.
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