The Sweetheart Lie

A Stalker Psychological Thriller

Some loves don’t die. Some killers don’t stop.

Emily spent years forgetting Luke, the boy she loved, the boy who left. He reappears in her coastal Virginia town “to start fresh” with his wife; old feelings flare… and a prickle of dread she can’t name. A cryptic note on her windshield. A shadow at the edge of the lot. A woman vanishes after being seen with Luke.

Everyone says Emily is overreacting. Luke says she’s imagining things. His wife smiles like a blade.

The town feels smaller every day. Doors stick. Phones glitch. Memories don’t line up. Why does Luke know details she’s never told him? Why does his wife always arrive first when something goes wrong?

As messages escalate and secrets claw free, Emily doubts her mind. Is she being watched, or managed? Trapped between the boy she remembers and the man he’s become, she has one choice: uncover the truth before the next “accident.”

She thought she knew him. She thought she knew herself.
Then… the night everything changed.