You Shouldn’t Have Answered: Dark Thriller Stalker Romance (Gloomsbury Manor)

Set in the 1990s, this dark gothic psychological thriller romance follows a traumatized piano prodigy who accepts a house-sitting job at a remote coastal mansion, only to discover she was never alone, and that one answered phone call traps her in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the man who’s been stalking her.
Aurelia Vale had it all: a perfect family, a perfect fiancé, a career as a piano prodigy, and a future carefully planned before her. Then, in one night, everything disappeared. A tragic accident shattered her life, leaving her as the only one who survived.

When a small ad in the back of a newspaper offers her ninety days of solitude at a cliffside gothic mansion in Mendocino, California, Aurelia takes it as a sign to disappear.

The first night is easy. By the second, she feels eyes on her. Someone is watching her, leaving letters on her doorstep and calling her in the middle of the night. Eventually, she had enough and answered only one call.

And the man who has been watching her finally appears.

"You shouldn't have answered," the words she will never forget.

An emotional story filled with trauma and grief that will stay with you long after the final page.