A Psychic Battle for the Soul
by
When the mind breaks, who walks in? A university freshman’s search for independence becomes a descent into madness as sinister forces push him toward a deadly legacy. Only a friend’s steadfast faith stands between him and a killer’s revenge.
Something dark has found Dave Everest at university—something hungry.
A neurodivergent freshman craving independence, Dave steps onto the sunbaked campus of the University of Mann with high hopes and a shaky sense of self. But freedom quickly spirals into chaos when he’s drawn into the orbit of Zane Maddox, his dangerously charming, party-obsessed roommate.
While Dave chases acceptance in all the wrong places, his childhood friend Maria Vasquez warns of forces that go far beyond hangovers and heartbreak. She carries psychic insight and the burden of guilt, sensing something ancient and malevolent stalking him. Zane mocks her as a “crazy religious freak,” but his grudge isn’t spiritual—it’s personal.
As Dave's loneliness deepens, he reaches out into the void, and something answers. A whispering voice named Ivan slithers into his mind, awakening memories soaked in addiction and violence.
READ MOREAs family tensions erupt over Thanksgiving and Dave’s grip on reality slips, the boundary between madness and possession begins to blur. Ivan’s ghostly power grows. And the vulture circles closer.
Maria may be the only one who can help him. But will she reach Dave before the darkness does?
COLLAPSE‘Master Shrink’, Goodreads Reviewer on Goodreads wrote:"Hook me with college parties and creepy vultures, and I'm all in! Campus of Shadows takes the whole "freshman year stress" thing and cranks it up with blackouts, possession, and a roommate you wouldn't trust to water your plants. I read it in one sitting because I had to know--was David losing it, or was something truly evil moving in? It's fast, freaky, and so much fun to read. Trust me, this book will mess with your head in the best way possible."
"This audiobook is a total immersion experience with a narrator who does all the voices and provides audio effects that make it feel like a radio play. Each character is done with different accents, temperaments and emotions, some quite intense. This is not just a straight narration, it is a powerful performance. We follow the harrowing descent into addiction and walk an ambiguous line between the idea of addiction as a form of "possession" as a metaphor and as a real occult phenomenon. I just wish that Maria would call 911 before suggesting an exorcism! This is what audiobooks are supposed to be--a double art form that's more than the sum of the parts of the author and the narrator!"