Scare at Bedtime

Looking GoodA Scare at Bedtime SeriesBarry Cummins has it all figured out. Or so he thinks.With his designer clothes, fake abs, and blindingly white veneers courtesy of cut-rate Turkish clinics, Barry believes he's perfection personified. He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and spends every waking hour maintaining his appearance. In his mind, he's God's gift to women, never mind that his colleagues can barely tolerate him and his narcissism has left him completely alone.But Barry's carefully constructed image starts to crumble when he notices his hair is thinning. For a man who has built his entire identity on looking perfect, going bald is a nightmare he can't accept.Then the email arrives.Elite Hair Solutions Istanbul promises a miracle, a state-of-the-art hair transplant at an unbelievably low price, five-star accommodation included, and results that will restore his confidence. The reviews are glowing. The facility looks immaculate. It seems too good to be true.It is.What Barry doesn't know is that Elite Hair Solutions isn't a hair clinic, it's a front for a criminal organization that harvests and sells human organs on the black market. His rare blood type, his pristine health from years of vanity-driven self-care, and his complete isolation have made him the perfect target.By the time Barry realizes the truth, it's far too late.Praise for "A Scare at Bedtime" Series"Short, sharp shocks that stay with you long after bedtime.""Modern horror with classic cautionary tale sensibilities, these stories don't just scare you, they make you think.""Perfect length for a single sitting that will haunt you for weeks."

LOVER'S PEAKA Scare at Bedtime Book SeriesWhat starts as a romantic evening becomes a night of terror.Mary Stenkirt and Jack Morples have only been dating for three weeks, but it already feels like something special. When Jack suggests driving up to Lover's Peak, the secluded clifftop overlook where generations of couples have gone to be alone, Mary eagerly agrees. Under the stars, with the ocean crashing two hundred feet below, they lose themselves in each other, talking and kissing as the hours slip away unnoticed.By 2:00 AM, they realize they're completely alone. The other couples have left. And Jack's car won't start.Jack decides to walk to a nearby house to call for help, promising Mary he'll be back in forty-five minutes. She waits in the locked car, trying to ignore the sounds outside, the growing isolation, the creeping sense that something is watching from the darkness.Jack never comes back.What Mary doesn't know is that earlier that day, a patient escaped from Blackwood Sanitarium, a man with a twisted belief that human faces are masks hiding the monsters beneath. A man who has killed before. A man who is now at Lover's Peak, watching, waiting.Lover's Peak is a heart-pounding thriller that transforms a romantic legend into a nightmare. From the author of the A Scare at Bedtime series comes a tale of young love cut short, survival against impossible odds, and the question that haunts every horror story: what would you do to stay alive?"Some places hold too much darkness. Some places, the dead don't rest easy. And some places are best left alone."

WASTERA Scare at BedtimeRuairi Murphy is a waste of space. At twenty-four, he's never worked a day in his life, content to spend his days at the bookies and his nights at the pub, all funded by his mother's blood, sweat, and tears.Kathleen Murphy works three grueling cleaning jobs, her arthritic hands scrubbing other people's dirt from dawn until midnight. She does it all to support her son, asking nothing in return except that he stay. Because after her husband Michael vanished without a trace six months ago, Ruairi is all she has left.But Kathleen doesn't know the truth.She doesn't know that Michael never left home that Tuesday morning in May. She doesn't know that his body has been rotting in the attic above her head for six months, hidden in the wedding chest that once held her veil and his boutonniere. She doesn't know that her beloved son is the one who put him there.Ruairi has found the perfect arrangement, a mother too broken to refuse him, too loving to question him, too desperate for family to let him go. He's bled her dry financially and emotionally, and when she can finally take no more, when she discovers the horrible truth hidden in the attic, he watches with cold calculation as she makes her final, desperate choice.But some debts can't be escaped. Some sins demand payment.Three weeks after Kathleen's funeral, a priest comes knocking. Father Brennan brings a message from beyond the grave, a mother's last desperate attempt to save her son's soul. But Ruairi is beyond saving. And the thing wearing the priest's face has not come to offer redemption.It has come to collect.A chilling tale of toxic family dynamics, unforgivable sins, and supernatural justice, "Waster" explores what happens when a mother's unconditional love meets a son's limitless cruelty. Perfect for readers who like their horror served with psychological depth and moral reckoning."Some people waste their whole lives. Ruairi Murphy wasted everyone else's too. Now it's time to pay the bill."

THE STUDA Scare at Bedtime SeriesSome transformations are best left unimagined.In the small Irish town of Ballycarrick, Pony Mahony is a legend in his own mind, a self-proclaimed ladies' man who's never met a "no" he couldn't ignore. When a beautiful young woman opens a bookstore in town, Pony sees his next conquest. The fact that she's newly married doesn't stop him. Her repeated rejections don't stop him. Her visible discomfort doesn't stop him.Nothing stops Pony Mahony.For weeks, he visits the bookstore daily, making increasingly explicit comments, touching her without permission, describing in graphic detail what he'd do if given the chance. When the woman finally snaps and calls him what he is, an old, fat man she finds repulsive, Pony's vanity is wounded. His solution? Cosmetic surgery. He'll transform himself into the man she can't resist.He finds a highly recommended surgeon in Dublin offering a promotional consultation. The doctor is professional, sympathetic, and thorough. The procedures sound perfect: facelift, liposuction, a complete physical transformation. Pony signs the consent forms without reading them carefully, too excited about his planned revenge to notice the doctor's cold eyes.Too desperate to recognize the name: Dr. Michael Brennan.The woman's husband.What Pony doesn't know is that for weeks, Dr. Brennan has been meticulously planning. Building documentation. Constructing legal justifications. Preparing for the moment when his wife's stalker would voluntarily put himself on the operating table.And when Pony wakes from surgery, bandaged and broken, he discovers that transformation can mean many things. He got younger-looking skin and a slimmer body, exactly as promised. But Dr. Brennan performed additional procedures. Permanent procedures. Procedures buried in the consent forms under medical terminology and behavioral health interventions.Procedures that ensure Pony Mahony will never harass another woman again.Biologically can't.Trapped in a remote recovery facility, confronted with the full horror of what's been done, Pony must choose, expose Dr. Brennan and expose his own predatory behavior to the world, or accept a financial settlement and disappear forever into exile and silence."The perfect bedtime horror, disturbing enough to haunt your dreams, compelling enough to keep you reading past midnight.""These aren't jump scares. These are slow-burn nightmares that get under your skin and stay there.""Irish gothic horror at its finest, atmospheric, unsettling, and impossible to put down."