The Compulsion

"The monsters were never under the bed. They were sitting at the dinner table."

For ten years, the secret of the Heritage Building has been buried under layers of silence and shadows. But for Elias Thorne, the past isn't just a memory-it's a physical directive.

When a series of murders begins to mirror a cold case from his childhood, Elias realizes that the "compulsions" he's spent a lifetime suppressing aren't his own. They are a bridge. Someone-or something-is reaching across a decade of trauma to finish a work that began at the edge of a screaming creek.

As the body count rises, Elias is forced back to the scene of the original sin: the Heritage Building and the ghosts of the Thornton family. With only fifty-two minutes to stop the next strike, he must navigate a labyrinth of traumatic neural bridging and institutional secrets to find the truth behind the woman in blue.

In this chilling psychological thriller, G.H. Arthur explores the terrifying possibility that our thoughts are not always our own, and that the greatest threat isn't the ghost in the machine-it's the person holding the mirror.

How do you stop a killer when you can feel their heartbeat in your own chest?