In Jest

He was drunk, broke, and had just lost his job when he wandered into a shop he'd never noticed before and asked a stranger for the only things he wanted: someone to love him, and somewhere to belong.

She never asked for money.

Just one breath. All of it. Don't hold anything back.

Years later, Wyatt has everything he asked for - the job, the girl, a life that finally feels like his. Then the dreams start. Something wearing his own face is waiting for him every time he closes his eyes, and every wound he takes fighting it back shows up on his body when he wakes.

He tells himself it's stress. A breakdown. Anything but what it actually is.

Everyone thinks the price was blood.

Blood grows back.

IN JEST is a slow-burn psychological horror about the debts we don't know we've made, the people who pay for our bargains without knowing it, and what happens when something you gave away years ago finally comes to collect.