Book One in The Other Side Series

Grief opens the door. But something else walks through.

Kate Winslow had everything: a future, a fiancé, a life full of quiet, simple plans. Then one rainy night, a car crash takes it all. When she wakes in a hospital room, battered and alone, she's told Everett Aucoin is gone. Vanished without a trace. No body. No explanation. Just footprints that lead into the woods-and disappear.

The police rule it a disappearance. The coroner declares him legally dead. But Kate knows something isn't right. Because that night, just before the crash, she saw something running. Something human. Something not.

Then the voices start.

Her phone rings at 3:12 a.m. - but no one speaks. Her sketchbook fills with drawings she doesn't remember making. A little girl with hollow eyes appears beside her bed, then vanishes without a sound. Mirrors don't reflect quite right. And sometimes, when she's alone... she isn't.

Just as she starts to question her sanity, Kate receives word that Everett secretly purchased a remote farmhouse under her name. With nowhere else to go, she drives there - deep into the forest, far from town, surrounded by lake, field, and silence.

But the house remembers.

It mourns. It dreams. And buried deep within its walls is a secret that's been waiting over forty years to be uncovered. A child went missing here in 1982. A child no one talks about. A child whose voice whispers through vents and static and shattered glass.

As Kate investigates Everett's disappearance, she's pulled deeper into a mystery that spans decades, linking her life to a girl named Lilah Carson... and to something that doesn't want to stay on the other side anymore.

Some spirits want peace. Others want revenge. And some never died at all.

With each step, Kate discovers that Everett didn't just vanish-he crossed over. And now, the veil between life and death is thinning. The Other Side is bleeding through.

And it's not alone.