Wayne Bodie Books / Psychological thriller
DEAD
He survived the fire. That was the first lie.
Cade Mercer wakes to a world that is almost right. His wife is gone. Records do not match memory. Rooms shift. Voices repeat. And every contradiction leads back to the life he refuses to face.
Inside the book
Reality is not breaking. It is telling on him.
Cade Mercer built his life around control. As a firefighter, he understands heat, collapse and chaos. But after a reckless decision on the water shatters everything, he wakes into a reality where the details keep moving just far enough to make certainty impossible.
The deeper the world splits, the more personal the fractures become. DEAD is a story about grief, judgment, memory and the cost of refusing the truth long after the warning signs were already there.
- Reality-bending psychological suspense
- Fire, memory and fractured perception
- Grief and guilt with a literary edge
- A slow descent toward an unavoidable truth