Completed manuscript · Not yet released
The Eighth Session
By Brandon Burnside · Nightgrave Publishing
A psychiatrist. A grieving brother. A secret that follows them into the consulting room.
About the book
In 1981 Tampa, a night at a bar ends with Gunther Roy struck by a car driven by psychiatrist Conrad Stetson. Gunther’s brother Bill is left with a loss he cannot put behind him.
Years later, Bill Roy enters Conrad’s office as a patient seeking help with sleepless nights and the death of his brother. Conrad sees a grieving man. But Bill’s questions about secrets, guilt, and family turn an ordinary appointment into something far more unsettling.
Set in 1980s Tampa, The Eighth Session is a completed psychological horror thriller about grief, concealed wrongdoing, and the danger of believing the past can stay outside a locked office door.
- Author & copyright holder
- Brandon Burnside
- Publisher
- Nightgrave Publishing
- Status
- Completed manuscript · Not yet released
- Length
- Completed manuscript · 19 chapters
- Genre
- Psychological horror · Thriller
- Setting
- Tampa, Florida · 1980s
Release date and ordering information to be announced.
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