Dawn Merriman

MARKED by DARKNESS: An emotionally intense, psychological thriller Dawn Merriman

A grief-stricken mother alone in the woods, her fragile grip on reality, and a copycat serial killer. An intensely emotional, psychological thrill ride.. I live like a ghost, deep in the wilderness. My dog and the trees are my only companions. I serve my penance hidden from the world, as insubstantial as the visions of my dead family that haunt me. Guilt over their murders shadows me as I live among the trees. . The thousands of trees can't protect me from my sorrow.. Or the evil searching for me.. When a young woman is murdered in my woods, my fragile safety shatters. The mark carved into her chest matches the scar I wear, matches the marks carved into my husband and children before they died. . The man who marked us died two years ago. Who killed this woman and left her for me to find? . This new threat will destroy me if I let him. Or I can give in to the dark of madness beckoning in my mind. It would be so easy to give up. Easier isn't better. My sister needs me to live. My new friend, Grant, needs me to live. My body is ready to fight, but will my mind survive?. An intense psychological thriller with a supernatural twist. "Marked by Darkness" explores the resilience of the human spirit in the face of pure evil and the effects of traumatic grief on a mother's mind. An eerily haunting tale of loss, revenge, and climbing away from insanity.