Scarlett Stoyer

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Scarlett Stoyer is a master of blending the ordinary with the eerie. Drawing inspiration from her love of small-town lore and the unbreakable bond between humans and their pets, she crafts stories that challenge our perceptions of faith and reality.

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Aldric

In a world of iron and shadow, the greatest battlefield is the human mind

Thriller
Historical Fiction
Paranormal

Aldric of the Weald is a man divided between two worlds. A former monastery scribe who survived a horrific massacre, he is now haunted by terrifying 'visitations' of a shadow realm that bleeds into our own. Cast out as a demoniac and hunted as a heretic, he flees into the deep medieval forests, where his only allies are a debt-bound mercenary and a scholar who believes his madness is actually a spiritual gift. But the shadow is not the only thing hunting him. Inquisitor Baldwin Malphas, a cold-blooded zealot, is convinced Aldric is the herald of a spiritual apocalypse. As they trek through treacherous marshes toward a legendary relic of clarity, Aldric’s sanity begins to shatter. The darkness he fears is not just a vision—it is an ancient evil manifesting through his own trauma. To save the kingdom from the encroaching void, Aldric must stop running from his fractured mind and learn to weaponize his suffering. In this high-stakes psychological thriller set in a world of burning heretics and cold iron, redemption is found in the heart of the nightmare. Will Aldric find the light of truth, or will the shadows of the Weald consume everything?

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Static in the Vaults

In a world of corporate greed, the most dangerous asset is the truth you hear

Crime Fiction
Thriller
Paranormal

Adelaide 'Addy' Hale is used to the headache-inducing noise of Manhattan, but at Whitaker & Associates, the static in her mind is starting to make sense. As a low-level accountant, she was never meant to be noticed. But when she realizes her chronic migraines are actually the telepathic echoes of her superiors’ darkest secrets, she begins to climb the corporate ladder with lethal precision. Her ascent leads her into an inner sanctum far more sinister than a typical private equity firm. The board of directors is a front for a global syndicate that harvests the minds of psychic children to engineer market crashes. Even worse, Addy discovers her own gift was no accident—she is a product of Project Static, a corporate experiment gone rogue. When she hears the CEO planning a high-stakes vault robbery that uses her own father as a scapegoat, the game changes. Teaming up with a disgraced safe-cracker, Addy must navigate a world of white-collar crime and mental warfare. As the 'Blackout Heist' nears, she has to decide how much of her humanity she is willing to sacrifice to burn the system down. In the vaults of power, hearing the truth is a death sentence.

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The Memory Harvest

Your memories are the ultimate harvest in a world where immortality has a price

Thriller
Science Fiction

Deep-sea diver Kian Vance is used to the pressure of the abyss, but nothing compares to the weight of saving his brother. To fund a life-saving transplant, Kian agrees to a high-stakes heist: stealing a rare blue coral specimen from a high-security underwater vault. But the coral isn't just a biological wonder. It is a living hard drive, pulsing with the rhythm of a human heart. When Kian touches the specimen, his mind fractures. Suddenly, he is seeing the world through the eyes of Jora Frey, a woman living in a desert city thousands of miles away. As their consciousnesses begin to merge, a terrifying truth emerges. The Ouroboros Marine corporation isn't just studying the reef; they are harvesting it. The glowing coral serves as a digital afterlife for the world's elite—a sanctuary for billionaire souls powered by the very lives of those they exploit. Caught in a web of corporate conspiracy and mental disintegration, Kian must navigate the crushing depths of the ocean and the even more dangerous corridors of power. With his identity slipping away and his brother’s life on the line, Kian must expose the harvest before his own mind is overwritten forever.

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The Echo of the Blackwood Still

In the Appalachian shadows, the forest claims more than just your life

Horror
Historical Fiction

The woods have a memory, and they are hungry for a new shape. Philadelphia, 1892. Silas Vance is a man hollowed out by scandal. A disgraced taxidermist with a ruined reputation, he flees to a remote Appalachian valley to harvest rare peat moss for a wealthy collector. It is his final chance at redemption, but the soil holds secrets more ancient than the trees. While digging near the ruins of an abandoned distillery, Silas unearths a hollowed-out trunk containing a woman named Cora. She is perfectly preserved, yet something is deeply wrong. She mimics his heartbeat. She repeats his words. As Silas becomes obsessed with his find, the transformation begins. His skin turns to gray bark, his reflection shifts into Cora’s likeness, and his lungs fill with the suffocating scent of sawdust. Local woodsmen speak of the Distiller—a man who traded his soul to the forest to steal the identities of the living. To stop his body from turning to timber, Silas must trek into the heart of the Blackwood Still to find a hidden grave. But the forest is patient, and it does not like to give back what it has claimed. Scarlett Stoyer delivers a chilling masterpiece of folk horror that asks: what happens when your own nature turns against you?

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The Memory Architect

Your memories are his masterpiece, but his own life is a carefully constructed lie

Thriller
Science Fiction

At Aethelgard Genetics, Aris Thorne is a master of nostalgia. As a forensic architect, he designs flawless digital memories for the wealthy, allowing them to inhabit childhoods they never truly had. But perfection has a glitch. A mysterious girl with crimson eyes is appearing in unrelated simulations, a ghost in the machine that Aris can’t explain. When he tries to delete the anomaly, the world he knows begins to dissolve. His laboratory access is revoked, his bank accounts are emptied, and his very identity is erased from the national database. Aris is no longer a citizen—he is a security threat. On the run through a rain-slicked city that doesn't recognize him, Aris discovers a terrifying truth: his own memories of a lonely childhood were manufactured in the very labs where he worked. The red-eyed girl isn't a coding error; she is a biological prototype and the key to a conspiracy that spans decades. With the ruthless Detective Silas Kray closing in, Aris must infiltrate the heart of Aethelgard to reclaim his past. But in a world where memories can be built and deleted, how do you know who to trust—especially when you can’t even trust yourself?

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Timeless Evil

Faith hides a timeless evil only a woman and her dog can see.

Paranormal
Mystery

In the quiet town of Oakhaven, faith is a shield that hides a monster. Martha Miller, a retired postal worker, thought her golden years would be spent in peace until she met Buster. The scruffy stray has a chilling gift: he only barks at the homes of the vanished. When Buster leads Martha to a hidden cellar beneath the local parish, she discovers a terrifying secret—a collection of Polaroid photos capturing decades of missing residents. In every photo stands Father Thomas, the town’s beloved priest. But while the years have passed, he hasn't aged a single day since 1956. As the community celebrates their 'immortal saint,' Martha realizes the miracles they witness are paid for in blood. When a local teenager goes missing, Martha is the only one who believes a crime has been committed. With the Sheriff dismissing her as a confused old woman and the town turning a blind eye to the truth, Martha must follow Buster into the darkening woods. She has until sunset to find the girl and expose the eternal predator hiding behind a collar, or she will become the next soul sacrificed for his eternal youth.

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