He can't touch the world he haunts. Can he stop what's coming for his brother?
Ivan walks the two miles home from his wrecked truck, into his apartment, and reaches for a cigarette. His hand passes straight through it. That's when he understands the body still slumped over the steering wheel, back on the dark road behind him, is his own.
Ivan is dead, and no one can see him. Death did not end his story. It stranded him inside it, a ghost haunting the apartment he once lived in. He can no longer touch the world, but he can still watch it, read it, and in small, unnerving ways push at it. As his perception bends and stretches, Ivan senses other presences moving through the same rooms he does. One of them, something hungry and patient, is circling his younger brother, Zane.
What looks like madness may be something quieter and stranger: a mind trying to keep working without a body to hold it together. And the longer Ivan lingers, the more he feels his own hunger sharpening, the pull to stop protecting Zane and start controlling him. Protection or possession? He’s no longer sure he can tell the difference.
To save his brother, Ivan may have to cross a line he can’t step back from, and reach into a living mind that’s not his own.
A prequel to Campus of Shadows, Shadows on the Edge is a haunting novelette of supernatural suspense and psychological horror, told from the point of view of the ghost himself. A story of consciousness after death and the fragile border between love and control, perfect for readers who love eerie, character-driven ghost stories and psychological thrillers about the mind, the unseen, and what remains when awareness outlives the body.
