The Paintings - Softcover

S Passmore, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798240978395

Verlag: Writers of the West, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Some secrets don't stay buried. They wait.

Pete Barber hasn't slept a full night in fifteen years. The dreams come every time he closes his eyes, the same forest, the same fire, the same faces twisted in the dark, always ending with Mary showing him a painting of his own death. He never tells her about them. He's not sure he ever will.

When the old group of friends reunites at a cabin in the Allegheny National Forest to mark fifteen years since the night that changed all of them, what was meant to be a weekend of closure becomes something far more dangerous. Mary has been painting in secret, sleeping through the days and working through the nights, refusing to let Pete see what she's working on. A killer who knows what happened that night is circling closer. And the painting, when Pete finally sees it, is worse than anything his nightmares ever produced.

The Paintings is a psychological thriller set deep in the forests and small towns of Northwestern Pennsylvania, where the past doesn't stay past and the people you trust most are the ones carrying the secrets that could bury you. Gerald S. Passmore builds his story around a group of ordinary people who once survived something terrible and have spent fifteen years becoming the versions of themselves that survival required, only to discover that survival was never the end of it.

Part thriller, part character study, part meditation on guilt, loyalty, and what violence does to the people who live through it, this is a novel that rewards patience and punishes certainty. The dreams that open every chapter are not decoration. They are evidence. And by the time the painting is revealed, you will understand exactly what they meant.

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Gerald S. Passmore has been an unpublished author of papers and an ardent teller of stories since childhood. He is an avid fan of the Old West and thrillers of all types. His papers run the gamut from research to musing ramblings of unintellectual thought. He resides in Texas and enjoys building guitars, playing music, reading and has built a career in dimensional metrology from the study of geology and anthropology. He released the first edition of The Paintings in 2014.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Writers of the West
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798240978395
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: West Writers Of The
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