Dead Stitch

He found the doll in a shop that shouldn't exist.
By the second stitch, someone was dead.
By the fourth... it was already too late.

Evan Walker wasn't looking for anything. Just a quiet afternoon and a place to pass the time. Then he walked into a forgotten antique shop and left with something he can't explain.

A cracked porcelain doll named Lillimay.

At first, it's nothing more than an oddity-until people start dying. Each death is followed by a new stitch appearing across the doll's face. Precise. Deliberate. Counting.

The pattern doesn't stay distant for long.

It tightens. It closes in.

And when Evan realizes the next stitch hasn't finished yet, he understands the truth-this isn't random.

It's moving toward him.

Now he's trapped in a system he doesn't understand, bound by rules he didn't agree to, trying to stop something that doesn't chase... it waits.

Because some things aren't found.

They're chosen.

DEAD STITCH is a grounded psychological horror novel about consequence, control, and the terrifying moment you realize you were never supposed to take it home.