Here is a dark, psychological horror novel with a spiritual pulse—built for readers who love stories that don’t just scare you, they stay with you. It begins with a simple, impossible detail: 3:17. A time that won’t move. A place that looks like life, but isn’t quite right. The rooms feel familiar in the way regret feels familiar—like something you’ve carried so long you forgot it was heavy. In this world, nobody is tortured by flames or demons. They’re tortured by denial. And the only way forward is to say what’s true without excuses.
WELCOME TO HERE
At the center of the story is Cal Ward, a man who has spent his whole life being the solution. He’s a leader type, a veteran, the kind of person who believes control equals safety. He knows how to take charge, how to endure, how to keep his face calm while everything inside him fights to spill. But in Here, that strength becomes a trap. The place doesn’t reward confidence. It rewards honesty. And every time Cal tries to rewrite his story, the world pushes back harder—quietly, precisely, and without mercy.
Meet Cal Ward
“Here doesn’t punish you for what happened. It only demands you stop pretending it didn’t.”
Cal doesn’t wake up alone. He’s pulled into a small cohort of strangers who feel like they’ve been dropped into the same nightmare from different doors. Tanya Brooks is a mother holding herself together with routines and a word she uses like armor—fine—while fear leaks through the cracks. Grant Harlow is a man drowning in the story of providing, defending decisions that are slowly destroying the people he claims to be doing it for. And Malik Reed is a young man who has mastered the art of acting like nothing matters, because caring would mean risking disappointment—and Here has a way of punishing that lie with brutal precision.
Then there are the faded—warped, ruined presences that linger at the edges of the light and feel less like creatures and more like consequences. The cohort believes they’re being hunted, and in every way that matters, they are. The air changes when someone dodges the truth. The distance closes. The threat becomes more real. And the deeper they go, the more they realize that Here doesn’t just reveal who you are—it reveals what happens when you refuse to be who you are.
Here is for readers who love horror with meaning: fans of psychological dread, eerie liminal spaces, spiritual undertones, and stories that force characters to confront themselves before they can escape anything else. If you’ve ever carried a version of yourself that you don’t want to look at too closely, this book will feel uncomfortably personal—in the best way. You’ll get suspense, terror, and mystery, but you’ll also get something rarer: a story that makes you ask hard questions about your own “here,” and what it costs to keep pretending you’re somewhere else.
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