Trust No One

He’s in her head. And he’s not leaving.

Grace Harper spends her days finding dream homes for strangers – but her office is a nightmare she can’t escape. Bullied by younger colleagues, and on a final warning from her boss, she hates her work, but desperately needs to keep earning so she can save enough to escape to university.

So when executive coach Oliver arrives to help the struggling team, Grace is keen to impress him by putting her best foot forward.

What she doesn’t realise is that Oliver is a deeply damaged individual who is prone to dark obsessions. And he sees something in Grace that makes her very, very special.

What begins as a series of coaching sessions soon warps into control, as Oliver positions himself as Grace’s secret guardian angel - one who knows what she needs better than she does.

And if Grace isn’t fully onboard with his plans? The price of refusing is darker than she could ever imagine.

As her career, relationships, and sanity begin to unravel, Grace realises she is being pushed to a place where she must answer one terrifying question – how far will she go to survive?

Caleb Crowe is a British writer of psychological thrillers, and is fascinated by stories where extraordinary things happen to ordinary people, and the mundane is transformed into the menacing.

He’s afraid of the sea, fearful in the countryside, panicky in large open spaces and terrified of small, confined spaces. He finds eerily quiet villages and bustling impersonal cities equally unsettling. There’s nowhere, and no one, that doesn’t possess some kind of dark, brooding anxiety just waiting to have the lid prised open and turned into a twisty, suspenseful, nerve-shredding story.

He lives in Manchester with his partner, two children and two cats, who probably have their own mysterious agendas. Whether he's navigating the urban jungle or wrestling with the daily challenges of family life, Caleb draws inspiration from the unpredictability of everyday existence.

You can reach him at www. calebcrowe.com