

Author's note
Welcome. You’ve found the doorway into my imagination—where shadows move, nightmares breathe, and nothing is ever quite what it seems. Signed copies are available throughout the shop, and I’m truly grateful you’ve chosen to share this strange and wonderful journey with me.
—Clarence Carter
The carter library
Ruin - Book Box
Robert thought he had finally found peace.
After everything he survived as a child, building a life with Beverly and their new son, Bobbie, this now felt like a second chance. A home. A family. A future that no longer felt haunted by the past.
But when a strange discovery is made deep inside the forest of Old Pine Valley, something ancient begins to stir beneath the surface.
At the same time, a new presence enters their home.
Felicia is everything they could have hoped for in a nanny. Kind, capable, and strangely familiar.
Too familiar.
As Robert begins to notice unsettling details that refuse to make sense, small cracks start forming in the life he thought was secure. Objects decay. Memories blur. And the feeling that something is watching him grows stronger with each passing day.
The deeper he looks, the less he understands.
Some things want to remain hidden in the shadows. Some things do not belong in this world. And some doors, once opened, do not close again.
Ruin, connects from Last Move, where love and trust that were forged will now be tested as something far older and far more dangerous begins to take hold.
What Robert’s grandmother said about this town being quiet and safe once again proves to be false.
Just like before, the real danger was never what he could see...
It was what had been waiting all along.
