The Watcher: Some houses aren't abandoned. They're waiting.
About this book
Grief led him to isolation. Something else was already there. Watching. Waiting. Whispering.Jason thought he was running from his past... tragedy, regret, and the unbearable weight of guilt that refused to let go. When he leaves the city behind and moves into a run-down house deep in the countryside, all he wants is silence, solitude, and a second chance at existing without falling apart. What he finds instead is a silence that isn't empty… it's alive.Across the road stands an abandoned house, half-collapsed and swallowed by weeds. Locals won't talk about it. The mailman won't deliver near it. And Jason can’t stop looking at it. At first, it’s small things... flickers of movement in the upstairs windows, the hum of static on an old radio, unexplained footprints in the dirt. He tells himself it’s just the wind. Just his imagination. Just the ghosts of his own past clawing through the cracks.But as the days pass, the distance between memory and reality collapses. Objects move. Whispers creep from the shadows. And in the glass… something looks back.Something knows what Jason did.Something knows who he couldn’t save.And it wants him to remember.Equal parts psychological thriller and supernatural horror, The Watcher is a haunting exploration of guilt, grief, and the unknowable darkness that lurks both outside and within. With chilling precision and a slow-burning intensity, Luke Harding crafts a story where the scariest thing isn’t what haunts the house, but what follows you home.This is not just a ghost story.This is not just a descent into madness.This is the house reminding you that no one ever moves in alone.