Letters from a Stalker

by Zeya Hart

Rating: ⭐ 5/5

Spice: 🌶️ 5/5

Vibe: Dark • Intense • Psychological • Mysterious • Suspenseful • Spicy • Emotional

⚠️ Trigger & Content Warnings
The following trigger and content warnings are provided by the author.

Sexual assault/rape and SA survival Sexual assault/rape and SA survival- Possible drugging- Ignored verbal refusal- Freeze response and dissociation- Victim blaming and minimization of sexual assault- Therapist/patient relationship- Serious ethical and professional boundary violations- Trauma discussions- PTSD symptoms- Anxiety and panic attacks- Grief- Parental suicide- Missing person investigation and identification of dceased parent- Parental emotional neglect and abandonment- Emotional manipulation- Childhood exposure to domestic violence- Stalking- Voyeurism- Obsessive behaviour- masked identity/deception- Morally gray characters- Explicit sexual content- Consensual rough sex- Dominance/submission dynamics- consensual restraint and power exchange- Substance abuse/alcoholism- Gambling- Complicated bereavement

Julia Hayes is on a bus with her best friend, Tessa, when she suddenly has a panic attack. Tessa asks the bus driver to stop because Julia can’t breathe. After spending some time outside, Tessa tells Julia that she needs to go back to therapy.

Julia starts looking for a therapist and eventually chooses Dr. Blackwood because of his impressive credentials. Little does she know what the future has in store for her after meeting him.

Kai Blackwood is sitting in his office when Julia arrives for the first time. She is nervous, but Kai does his best to make her feel at ease. After a few sessions, they discuss a very intense and personal subject in Julia’s life. After the session, Kai notices that although Julia says she is fine, she is actually dissociated and decides that he cannot let her go home alone in that state.

What does Kai do, and what will the consequences be?

One day, Little Ember arrives home from work and finds a black envelope lying in the middle of her hallway. It looks like it was meant to be waiting outside her door while she was at work.

When she opens the letter, she realizes it is signed by… the Man in the Shadows.

But who is this man? What does he want, and what will these letters do to Little Ember?

For the answers to these questions and many more, you’ll have to read Letters from a Stalker by Zeya Hart.

A book that, once you start reading, pulls you in and refuses to let you go until the very last page. A dark romance filled with psychological triggers, some serious spice, and a dangerous amount of curiosity that kept me turning the pages until the end.

Some letters are meant to be read. Others are meant to be feared.