Take a journey into the disturbed, delusional mind of Jack Cyrus … take a journey into Darkview … a small, remote coastal town, deep within the Scottish Highlands.The sleepy, isolated spot bears a sinister, horrific history, shrouded by a chilling secret. A secret one man must unveil, which will ravage his soul … and sanity!Jack Cyrus is in damnation!After witnessing the 1994 Rwandan … witnessing the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, he has become plagued by dark memories and devilish visions, the result of post traumatic stress.
After returning home to Scotland and compounding his trauma, he is faced with the sudden death of his wife, from cancer.
Lost, alone, and struggling to forget the horrific circumstances surrounding her passing, Jack has developed schizophrenia, experiencing chaotic, disturbed thoughts and demonic hallucinations.
On the sixth anniversary of his wife’s death, Jack receives a cryptic, hand written letter from her, telling him she is still alive. Suffering and held captive, she pleads with him to return to Darkview, the place she spent her last days, and rescue her from purgatory.
Upon arrival in Darkview, strange things start happening, and what appears to be a centuries old mystery, starts unravelling itself.
Jack must piece together the clues and lost fragments of his sanity to solve the unravelling mystery.
Is any of it real, or is it just a manifestation of Jack’s mind, or another facet of his schizophrenia?
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“It can’t be! I buried you Chloe. Dead people can’t write letters!”
Wow! Talk about a mind-twisting, horrifying ride! Just when I thought I had something figured out, I was pulled in a different direction completely! Several times, I uttered “Oh my God” or audibly gasped at what was happening!
You know that feeling when you wake up and you’re not sure about whether what’s running through your head actually happened or it was just a dream? Those first eye flutters between sleep and awake, where the line between your mind piecing together disjointed events in your life, and it putting everything in order is blurred? That’s where Jack is trapped.
Jack Cyrus has seen horrifying and anguishing things in his life. From the genocide in Rwanda, to the death of his beloved wife, Chloe. Things like that can break a man. He’s never recovered from losing Chloe and he’s a shell of the man he used to be. When he discovers a blood-stained letter in which his deceased wife is begging for him to come find her and help her, he sets off for the place where they spent her last days – Darkview.
But, what awaits him there is more strange and horrifying than anything he could ever imagine. Visions filled with blood, death, and pain haunt him at every turn. Residents of Darkview that have long since left this world, walk the streets – their souls trapped there. Somehow, all of these are pieces to a puzzle that Jack needs to solve if he is to find Chloe and save her. But there are forces here that will do whatever is necessary to keep him from completing this task. Darkview has a murderous history, and Jack can’t help but think the key is buried there.
I absolutely love a good horror story, and I love a good psychological thriller. This is both wrapped up in to one! You know it’s a good story when, after you’re finished, you close the book and just kind of walk around dazed, not sure of what you just read, totally creeped out by the horrific images, and unnerved by the blurred lines between reality, fantasy, and a psychotic break. As this is Book 1, I expected loose ends. But, I can’t wait for Book 2!!
Loved it!!
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Wow! My mind is blown!
This is very well written and I can not wait for more from these very talented authors.
Jack lost his wife and had a break down. Years later he still isn’t back to normal or even close. Things take a turn when start happening and Jack can’t decide if what he is seeing and hearing is real or not.
Psychosis took my on one wild ride full of twist and turns and confusion that had me on the edge of my seat waiting for what would happen next.
I highly recommend Psychosis to those who love a story that keep you guessing from Page 1.
Brilliantly written. This store kept me glued to the pages even through the confusion. Jack lost his wife, his rock. At first it seems he has suffered a mental break, then the possibility of potentially being in another dimension or even having found hell on earth. Who is alive, who is dead, who is a figment of Jack’s imaginations? Can you figure it out? I don’t remember the last time a book had me so confused, but at the same time absolutely entranced with the story. I look forward to see what comes next.