No One Skates Out Alive
Holiday Slay, Book One · Halloween · October 30, 2026
Coming October 30, 2026
About the book
He never called. He never knocked. He never once stopped watching.
Marlo Bishop builds haunted houses for a living, which means she knows exactly how long a scream should last. Her league's Halloween fundraiser is the only thing standing between the Crucible and the bank, and she has spent six weeks teaching a warehouse how to hunt people.
Then a body turns up in the morgue room, and it isn't wearing latex.
The detective who answers the call is the man who disappeared from her life six years ago without a word. Grady Whitlock left, and built a respectable life, and every window in it faced her. Four away bouts watched from the back rail in six years, rationed like a man saying grace. A box on a closet shelf that keeps getting heavier.
He tells himself the rules make it something else.
They don't.
Now there's a killer inside her building who knows its blind corners as well as she does. There's a loan nobody voted on. And there's a masked figure standing at the end of her corridor at eleven at night, perfectly still, waiting to see what she does.
Marlo should run.
She's about to find out exactly what happens when she does.
masked man · he fell first · six years of watching · fair-play murder mystery · forced proximity · found family that would bury a body · dual POV · open door, no fade to black · HEA
Dark romantic suspense · Holiday Slay, Book One
This book includes six years of non-consensual surveillance by the hero — watched public appearances, kept records of the heroine's addresses, a tracker placed without her knowledge. It's named, confronted, and answered for on the page. It is never framed as harmless. Explicit content throughout, always negotiated out loud. Not present in this book: sexual assault of any kind, or cheating. Not present anywhere in this series: harm to animals. The dog makes it.