Slowburnthriller Stories

They don't kill people. They kill identities. When out-of-work coder Erin Cross lands a dream job at Covenant Analytics, she thinks she's finally escaped a life of instability. The sleek tech firm offers more than just money-it promises purpose: "Protecting global digital truth." But behind the glass walls and wellness slogans lies something far more insidious. After stumbling on corrupted files tied to a woman who no longer exists-T. Madsen-Erin discovers Covenant isn't a consultancy. It's a privatized erasure agency, deleting people not from the world, but from history. Names vanish. Digital footprints disintegrate. Entire lives rewritten or scrubbed from existence. Now Erin is marked for deletion. With only a rogue engineer, a discredited whistleblower, and her younger brother to trust, she must expose the truth-before she becomes its next ghost. But when truth is managed by AI and memory can be rewritten, the real question isn't who's lying. It's who's left to remember.

"You looked so pretty tonight." A single text. An unknown number. And a gaze that never leaves her. When Clara moves into a quiet neighborhood, she expects the kind of peace most people crave - morning coffee, late-night rain, a life small enough to be safe. But safety ends the night she receives a message from D. Ruelle - a name she's never heard, a watcher she can't see. Her boyfriend Aiden promises to protect her. Her friends tell her it's just a prank. But the messages keep coming. The locks change themselves. And the line between protection and possession begins to blur. Because whoever D. Ruelle is... he's always one step ahead. And he's not hiding in the shadows anymore. - a psychological thriller by R.J. BlackLuna ---

Book One: Stephen Johnson

Jay Mercer is invisible. Thirty-one years old, working nights at a warehouse, and living in a one-room apartment that smells faintly of dust and old books, he has spent most of his life watching other people live it. He doesn't have friends. He doesn't have family. He doesn't have a reason to be noticed. Until her. She's just a woman from his office - kind, bright, and utterly out of reach. Jay knows he'll never speak to her. He's content to admire her from a distance, to scroll through her world online late at night while the city sleeps. But admiration becomes curiosity, curiosity becomes fixation, and fixation begins to rewrite his life. In trying to shape himself into the kind of man she might see, Jay makes choices that ripple outward, tiny and harmless at first - until they're not. A missed train. A broken conversation. A chance encounter. Each decision tightens an invisible net, pulling strangers and acquaintances into a chain of events no one can stop. As tragedy coils around him, Jay must face a haunting truth: he isn't a monster. He's just lonely. And loneliness can be the most dangerous thing in the world.

In the dying town of Elmsway, brothers Danny and Luke Harker are bound by blood and broken by betrayal. Once legends of the streets, a single mistake tore them apart and set their world ablaze. Now, as a shadowy experiment known as Project Echo resurfaces, old loyalties fracture and the brothers are forced to face the sins that refuse to stay buried. Axes and Shadows is a gritty, heart-stopping thriller about family, redemption, and the cost of surviving the darkness that made you.

Louise doesn't believe in curses. But it's hard to ignore the whispers - the way people look at her when something terrible happens. First love. First loss. Then another boy. Another goodbye. And now... someone is watching. Notes. Flowers. Polaroids that shouldn't exist. And journal entries from a voice that claims to know her better than anyone else ever could. Everyone says to move on. But Louise can't shake the feeling that the past is circling back. That the person she trusted most is hiding in the silence. And this time, they're not just watching. They're waiting.

"She Left Without Leaving" They said she died peacefully. They lied. When Meera steps into the decaying house at the end of Hollow Street, she's not alone. Something lingers in the walls-soft footsteps, a presence in the mirror, a name whispered in the dark. The ghost doesn't want help. But Meera is determined to uncover the truth, even if it means tearing open wounds that were never meant to heal. Because this death wasn't natural. And the one who took her life is still hiding in plain sight. Some spirits wait for justice. Others wait for revenge.

Elara walks through life like a shadow - silent, unnoticed, forgettable. But the day she finds a strange bookstore that wasn't there before, everything begins to change. A dusty diary with no title. A diary that already knows her name. A reflection that doesn't move. And secrets that were never meant for her. Some books are written to be read. This one was written to remember.

Withdraw is a slow-burn psychological thriller about the blurred line between play and reality. When Elena signs up for The Cleaner, an immersive escape-room-style challenge where players must stage a crime scene to mislead investigators, she expects an elaborate puzzle and a shot of adrenaline. The waiver says plausibility over drama-and that's the game she's ready to play. But the deeper she goes, the more convincing the "props" feel. The metallic tang in the air. The misplaced phone recording her every move. The faint stain on the bedroom carpet. And the message that chills her blood: We're outside. Two minutes. What begins as a game of clever misdirection turns into a fight for survival, as Elena realizes she's not staging a scene-she's being trapped inside one.

Until the Bell Rings Seonghwa High seemed normal - crowded halls, whispered crushes, a new student nobody could figure out. But when a strange infection begins spreading just beyond the campus gates, normal disappears. As panic creeps closer, Class 2-3 is forced to make an impossible choice: stay and survive... or run and leave others behind. Not all of them will choose the same thing. And not all of them will stay human. All Rights Reserved©️

A senior officer is found dead in a Putrajaya hotel. No struggle. No message. Just a red USB... and a name. Inspector Ariff Shah is pulled into a case the system wants buried. But the past has a way of resurfacing - and this time, it's personal. A Malaysian crime thriller. Slow-burn. Sharp. Dangerous.