Novels Collections
This is the place to be for all things thriller and horror. Fast-paced, short chapters, and characters you'll love even when you shouldn't. I love easy-to-read books that keep you guessing so that is exactly what I aim for in my own writing, and so far... many readers agree! Here a re a few reviews rounded up from Amazon about my style:
"There were times when I practically had to remind myself to breathe because of how well the tension built. Erica's writing is incisive, gripping, and totally engrossing."
"Talking about a jaw dropping ending!"
"A nail-biter and 100 percent thrilling. I was hooked from the beginning and then surprised by the end."
"I really enjoy Erica's writing style and find her novels suspenseful and super easy to read."
Novels
You'd Never Know
An intense story of two families and one crazy secret.
Mikhail and his friends have a game of breaking into houses. But when they put his house on the list, they are met with a lot more than they bargained for. An unfamiliar car. A woman who’s not his mother, and heated words echoing down the stairs.
Mikhail tries to forget it, but there's blood on the floor and something isn't right with his dad.
When Aubrey returns home on college break, her mother is missing. Her dad is out of the country and the police aren’t taking her seriously. Finally, she makes some headway—her mom’s phone pings in Bleeding Hearts Valley.
What happens next is a whirlwind of secrets and suspicion that Mikhail and Aubrey have to piece together in an attempt to salvage their families. But who exactly is hiding the biggest secret, and is every truth meant to be revealed?
The Twisted Dark
A claustrophobic folk horror for readers who love to lose their minds.
DudleyTown Connecticut is a real place.
DudleyTown Connecticut is illegal to visit.
Police say that’s because it’s private property, but locals know it’s because the land is cursed.
When Bailey adventures with her friend Marek into the forest for a paranormal investigation, her boyfriend Simon begrudgingly comes along. Sharing hobbies is what partners do, right? Plus, it’s all stories, so someone has to be there to keep the group grounded.
Except as night falls, those stories become startlingly real. Whispers in the fog, dark shapes between the trees, and soon reality feels like it’s moving further and further away. Is the abandoned mine the perfect refuge, or a shadowy trap?
Can they make it out alive, or will they fall victim to the horrors of DudleyTown?
Centuries of stories have been told about DudleyTown, and now you are in the middle of them. Step into this twisted dark at your own risk and decide for yourself what is fact and what is fiction.
I Saw You Sweetheart
A twisted suspense thriller that will keep you turning pages.
Run.
Don’t talk.
Don’t try to remember.
Hazel Price has been missing for four years, and the night she and her friends were last seen is fog in her brain. But she knows one thing: that night, she made the worst mistake of her life.
Now that she’s home, everyone is asking questions: her family, the police, and especially her therapist... and those questions are leading to answers, but as her memories come into focus, they aren’t what she expected.
Was that night really her fault? And if not, who exactly are all her lies protecting?
I Saw You Sweetheart is part of the Bleeding Hearts Valley Thrillers - a collection of stand-alone novels set in one not-so-quiet suburb.
A House in Shadow
A twisty supernatural thriller for fans of Freida McFadden & Jason Rekulak.
392 Chapman Drive is not the house Tristan and Allison had hoped for. It was supposed to be the idyllic place to raise their daughter away from the bustle of the city, but all too soon the house shows a sinister side, twisting Tristan’s world into a waking nightmare.
Allison doesn’t believe him, their daughter may or may not be in danger, and he can’t shake the feeling that there's more to all of this. Phantom knocks, figures who aren’t who they seem, doors that don’t lead where they should… could it all be in his head? Is he succumbing to stress and the isolation of working from home in a small town?
Tristan must walk the line between madness and method as he tries to stop whatever it is in the house that is tormenting him. Can he save his family or will he be their downfall?
According to Plan
A gripping stalker thriller perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes.
As soon as Laura closes her front door, there is no going back to her old life. She’s determined to leave behind the catty office, the inattentive bosses, and most importantly, her menacing stalker, Jared.
He’s become obsessed. Flirting, turning up at her favorite coffee place, sending her dozens and dozens of texts, emails, photos… He won’t take no for an answer, but no one believes her, let alone offers to help, so she has to take things into her own hands.
The life she’s dreamed of is within reach. She just has to make it out of town. But her route through the woods may be just as dangerous as the man tracking her. Can she make it to freedom, or will Jared catch up with her right when she’s most vulnerable?
Follow Laura in this cat-and-mouse game that Jared has her trapped in and find out if her inner strength can outweigh his obsession.
Excite
Limitless meets Flatliners.
One pill starts a party, how many make a nightmare?
Jon is just another dissertation student until the hypothetical drug that he and his partner Isaac are working on turns into a real pill. Except it doesn't do quite what they intended. When they realize that it has the potential to be the next great party drug they are split. Jon's girlfriend Kat is pushing him to take it to the streets but his partner wants nothing to do with it. Isaac just wants to finish their thesis.
But Jon can never say no to Kat and together they start showing the little pink pill off at parties. The drug spreads like wildfire through the college campus. It’s almost too easy; the demand keeps rising, the money flows in, and the parties are getting bigger. Can they keep it together or will chasing the high bring them crashing down?
Collections
Turn on the Light
Short stories for fans of The Twilight Zone and Ray Bradbury.
Sometimes you have to toss the book across the room to stop the demons from escaping. Just don’t drop this one under the bed, who knows what will spill out.
Wander into tales of the unknown. From ghosts and monsters to inner demons, supernatural abilities mix with the paranormal and stretch into the world of science fiction to bring nightmares to life in these pages.
Whether it’s in the moments before you wake or while you are stuck on a family vacation, you cannot escape the horrors. Sometimes they are all in your head and other times the killer is lurking right across the street.
Dive into these tales if you dare, and heed the warning: turn on the light. In darkness it's hard to tell the difference between science fiction and fact, hauntings or psychosis, or even life and death.
Quite the Predicament
Short stories collected from The Grim Creeper Collaborations.
Sometimes there is a monster in the trees; other times it’s disguised as your best friend, and once in a while, the danger is your own thoughts.
This collection brings together short stories blurring the line between thriller and horror that have only been offered before in digital. Six twisted tales already loved by readers, along with two bonus quick reads found only in this compilation.
Do you dare head to the lake house? Drive into a snowstorm on Christmas eve? Open a box of chocolates? Visit an art gallery or a haunted house? Maybe you’re just dying to make it through high school.
Crack open this collection and the next crisis might just be your own.
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