T.R. SLOANE

Crash of Lies

Psychological Thriller

Some secrets don't stay buried.

For three years, Claire Montgomery has lived in a prison of guilt. The world believes her husband's death was a tragic suicide, but Claire knows the truth: her cruel final words drove him to the edge. Her penance is silence, solitude, and the heavy weight of the past.

Until the morning the boot appears.

It sits center-stage on her porch. Muddy. Worn. Identical to the one David was wearing the night he died. The same boot Claire buried in a sealed bin three years ago.

Suddenly, her quiet mourning is shattered. Someone has been inside her home. A cold new neighbor is watching her house with military precision. Cryptic objects from her family's past begin to surface, destroying her grip on reality. And worst of all, her teenage daughter—the one person Claire swore to protect—is looking at her with a pity that feels increasingly rehearsed.

As Claire frantically hunts for her tormentor, she uncovers a trail of blackmail and deceit that suggests David didn't just die—he was destroyed. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes she isn't hunting a ghost.

She is being hunted by one.

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The Lies We Raise

Psychological Thriller

"One of the most unnerving and intelligent psychological thrillers you will read this year. Utterly unputdownable."

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She isn't raising a child. She is containing a threat.

Welcome to the glass house.

From the street, the Montgomery home is an architectural marvel. From the inside, it is a panopticon. Claire Montgomery is no longer a grieving widow. She is a warden.

Knowing the terrifying truth about her husband's death, Claire's life has become a suffocating routine of surveillance. She checks locked drawers. She counts breath cycles. She tracks screen time. She is desperate to keep the monster she raised from surfacing again.

But walls of glass work both ways.

When a new family moves in next door, Claire notices a shift in Zoe. The detached fourteen-year-old becomes laser-focused on the neighbor's son, Leo—a boy with a dark history of his own. When Claire finds a hidden sketchbook detailing a blueprint for the boy's systematic destruction, she realizes her containment protocols have failed.

Zoe isn't just watching anymore. She is planning.

With a relentless private investigator circling the perimeter and a volatile new variable next door, Claire must decide how far she will go to protect the world from her daughter—before her daughter decides she's done being watched.

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A Captivating Lie

Psychological Thriller / Horror

"The shattering conclusion to the Lies We Keep trilogy."

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The cage is open. And the world is watching.

The public sees a miracle. For six months, Zoe Montgomery has played the role of a lifetime: the Survivor. The Hero. The girl who forgave her troubled mother and emerged from the darkness with a message of hope.

She has the scholarships, the viral fame, and the adoration of a city to prove it. She has turned her trauma into a brand, and her therapy sessions into a laboratory for human manipulation.

But three women know the truth.

Claire, rotting in a halfway house, knows her daughter is not a victim. Jocelyn, a disgraced detective, knows the body count is rising. And a journalist named Sara is beginning to realize her story has no happy ending. They are watching the old patterns re-emerge, terrified of who will be next.

They have one chance left. A desperate, illegal plan to intervene before Zoe's new architecture claims another life. They think they can build a trap strong enough to hold her. They think they can force a cure.

But they are forgetting the most important lesson of all: You don't try to trap a predator in the dark. You just give them a place to hide.

The shattering conclusion to the Lies We Keep trilogy.

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Hurricane Secrets

Action Adventure / Southern Noir

He vanished fifteen years ago. She's about to find out he didn't just disappear. He was erased.

If you crave heart-stopping suspense and a tough heroine who refuses to back down, you've found your next favorite read. This is your kind of thriller:

✅ A resourceful female lead character who turns from hunted to hunter.
✅ A tense mystery with action and adventure that erupts into a heart-pounding fight for survival.
✅ An immersive Louisiana setting so real you'll feel the hurricane's fury.
✅ A deadly conspiracy of money, power, and federal corruption.

June Sawyer is drowning. In debt, in grief, and in the suffocating Louisiana heat. Her family's historic po'boy shack is on the verge of foreclosure, her mother is critically ill, and a monster hurricane named Eliza is poised to let the Gulf reclaim what little she has left.

Her only hope lies in a desperate search for anything of value her father left behind. But when a cryptic key unearths a truth far more dangerous than she could imagine, she learns her father wasn't just a simple fisherman—he was entangled with a ruthless cartel and the corrupt federal agents who enabled them.

Now, his secrets are her secrets. The people who silenced him are hunting her.

Trapped between the storm of the century and a conspiracy that will do anything to stay buried, June must use every lesson her father taught her about the treacherous Gulf waters to uncover a secret that will either be her salvation… or her tombstone.

For fans of James Lee Burke, Lisa Gardner, and David Baldacci, Hurricane Secrets is a relentless, high-stakes action adventure thriller with female lead protagonist about the dark secrets that bind a family and the brutal price of redemption.

Hurricane Secrets is a gripping, atmospheric thriller that combines the puzzle-box mystery of a Dan Brown novel with the gritty, Southern-gothic suspense of James Lee Burke. If you love relentless heroines, intricate conspiracies, and stories where family loyalty is the most dangerous secret of all, you won't be able to put down the first book in the electrifying Gulf Secrets series.

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The Ancestor's Cipher

Historical Conspiracy Thriller

She survived the hurricane. She rebuilt her home. But some storms never pass.

June Sawyer is a survivor. After a devastating storm, she used her father's mysterious inheritance to build a beacon of hope for her Louisiana community. But when a shadowy global entity lays claim to her family's land, June is dragged into a two-hundred-year-old war.

Her only weapon is a cryptic cipher left by a disgraced ancestor—a puzzle of hidden maps, astronomical artifacts, and a secret so explosive, people have been killing to protect it for generations.

Hunted by a brilliant and ruthless operative, June must rely on a wounded federal agent and a handful of bayou locals to race through the atmospheric heart of Louisiana. But the man hunting her is just a pawn. The true enemy is an ancient conspiracy that doesn't just report history—they write it.

They are the secret cartographers of the world, and they've just marked the Sawyer family for erasure.

Perfect for fans of Dan Brown, James Rollins, and Steve Berry, The Ancestor's Cipher is a relentless conspiracy thriller packed with clever puzzles, non-stop action, and a smart, capable heroine who outthinks her enemies at every turn.

You've just found your next obsession.

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The Cartographer's Compass

Conspiracy & Historical Thriller

The most dangerous lie is the one everyone else believes.

Six months after toppling a criminal empire, June Sawyer believes the war is over. The Sawyer's Shack Cultural Center stands as a testament to her family's resilience, and the Louisiana bayou is finally healing.

But peace is a fleeting tide.

Enter Dr. Julian Bellamy. The charismatic benefactor brings resources, solutions, and miracles to the coast. He saves dying children and funds impossible dreams, quickly earning the adoration of everyone June holds dear. But where others see a savior, June smells the acetone beneath the wax seal—a chemical flaw in his perfection that no one else can perceive.

As Bellamy's grip tightens, June's warnings are dismissed as paranoia. Her greatest gift—the ability to read the landscape of a lie—is weaponized against her. In a brutal campaign of psychological warfare, she is systematically isolated, her own mother and allies turned against her through acts of manipulated love.

Stripped of her authority, voted out of the sanctuary she built, and facing federal prison, June is left with nothing but a message from a ghost in the system.

To fight an enemy who turns community into a cage, June must abandon the fortress she built and become something else entirely: a hunter.

The Cartographer's Compass is a pulse-pounding psychological chess match about resilience, betrayal, and the forging of a new kind of warrior.

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The Wife in the Walls

Psychological Thriller / Domestic / Medical

I wasn't hired for my resume. I was hired for my skeleton.

My name is Arden. I'm sleeping in the backseat of a Civic, washing up in gas station sinks, and drowning in debt. I have nothing left to lose. So when Vaughn Mercer—a tech billionaire with a plummeting stock price and a missing wife—makes me an offer, I don't ask questions.

Sign the contract. Be the grieving wife for six months. Walk away with debt forgiveness, $200,000, and a new life.

It sounded perfect. But the interview wasn't a conversation; it was a physical. He measured the circumference of my wrists. He calipered the geometry of my clavicle. He timed the rare congenital arrhythmia in my heart.

Now I am a prisoner in his penthouse—a smart home fortress of white marble, acoustic panels, and biometric locks. I wear Daphne’s clothes. I mimic her gait. I survive on the calorie-restricted nutrient paste Vaughn demands to keep my weight within a decimal point of perfection.

But I'm not the only one here. The sensors see body heat, but they miss what’s hiding in the voids. There is a rhythmic scratching in the air ducts at 3:00 AM. A dragging noise above the ceiling tiles. And deep inside the walls, a starving woman is watching me steal her life.

And she wants it back.

The Wife in the Walls is a claustrophobic, high-concept psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Housemaid and Verity.

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Gossip, Gumbo & a Gun

Cozy Mystery

Some secrets are best served cold. Tinny Rawls prefers hers with a side of hot gumbo.

Fifty-nine-year-old Tinny Rawls is the heart and soul of Magnolia Cove, Louisiana. From behind the counter of The Gumbo Pot, her beloved diner, she serves up the best food and the most reliable gossip in three parishes. Her kingdom is a world of comfort, camaraderie, and a "mother roux" that hasn't been cold in twenty-three years.

But when the town's most respected craftsman is found dead in his workshop, the official story doesn't sit right. The town's own sheriff—a man Tinny has known her entire life—swiftly rules it a tragic accident, closing the case before the gumbo's even gone cold. Tinny knows the truth smells as off as burnt filé powder. The victim was a man of meticulous habits and steady hands. He didn't just slip.

Armed with her discerning ginger cat, Roux, a pot of gumbo hot enough to make a sinner confess, and a lifetime of listening to secrets whispered over coffee, Tinny starts stirring up a roux of trouble. Her unofficial investigation leads her from the town's icy matriarch with a century-old grudge to a reclusive artist hiding deep in the bayou.

As she peels back the layers of a carefully constructed lie, Tinny discovers that this murder is just the final chapter in a story of stolen legacy and simmering betrayal. Now, she's about to find out that in a town this small, some folks would rather serve up a side of murder than see their secrets get spilled.

Get ready to meet your new favorite amateur sleuth!

Gossip, Gumbo, and a Gun is the irresistible first book in the Tinny Rawls Cozy Mystery series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and Ellery Adams.

You'll devour this book if you love:

✔️ A whip-smart, middle-aged heroine who's more than meets the eye
✔️ A charming Southern setting that feels like a character itself
✔️ A delightful cast of quirky, small-town characters
✔️ A tantalizing mystery with a twist you'll never see coming

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The No-Faced Boy

Psychological Horror Short-Story

Every morning, Eliza wakes up to two things: a screaming ring in her ears, and the small boy waiting in the hallway.

He wears her son Caleb's favorite pajamas. He speaks with Caleb's voice. But where Caleb's face should be, there is only a smooth, blank void.

To her husband, Mark, there is nothing wrong. He sees their beloved son recovering from a car accident. He begs Eliza to trust him—and the doctors who say these visions are just the hallucinations of a grief-stricken mind. He tells her she is sick. He tells her she is safe.

But the thing in the hallway is getting the details wrong. It hates the food Caleb loved. It flinches at things Caleb enjoyed. The mother in Eliza knows something is wrong, and she begins a desperate, secret investigation into the boy living in her house.

As Eliza peels back the layers of her own fractured memory, she is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: Mark might be lying, and the monster standing in her kitchen might be the only truth she has left.

The No-Faced Boy is a gripping psychological thriller short story about the dark spaces between guilt and madness.

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