The Silence of Echoes

Randi Mullens can walk into a crime scene and feel what the victim felt.

It isn't a gift. It's a burden.

As an empath working alongside the FBI, Randi immerses herself in the final moments of the dead-barefoot on cold floors, breathing in fear that isn't hers, carrying emotions that don't leave when she does. Each case takes something from her. Each victim lingers.

When a calculated serial killer begins strangling women across the city, Randi is called in to help identify the pattern. Detective Derek Hogan doesn't believe in psychics, intuition, or anything that can't be processed as evidence. He believes in procedure. In facts. In control.

Randi believes in echoes.

But as the killings escalate, something shifts. The victims begin to resemble Randi-same stature, same dark hair, same careful styling. This is no longer random. It's deliberate.

He isn't just killing.

He's refining.

When Randi realizes she may be the true target, she makes a dangerous decision: step into his line of sight and force him to move. It's a calculated risk-one that could stop the killings or cost her everything.

Because this killer doesn't want to silence her.

He wants to be seen.

And somewhere in the shadows, another presence has been watching far longer than either of them realize.

The Silence of Echoes is the gripping first installment in The Echoes Series-a psychological suspense novel about trauma, obsession, survival, and the fragile line between understanding darkness and being consumed by it.