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The Prisoner of the Cliff: A Neonoir Gothic Thriller
Paperback
Series: Gothic Tales
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He thinks his words are cursed. She thinks he's a liar. The storm trapping them together doesn't care what they believe.
Andrea Fields has one job: Get the signature, save the firm, and go home.
As a junior editor hanging by a thread, Andrea is sent to Blackwood Point-a crumbling gothic estate teetering on the edge of the Pacific-to collect a manuscript from the world's most reclusive author. Vergil Patton isn't just famous; he's a myth. Five years ago, his wife burned to death in his library, and he hasn't written a word since.
When Andrea arrives, she finds a man ruined by grief, heavily medicated, and convinced that his typewriter is a conduit for death. But before she can leave, a hundred-year storm shears the bridge to the mainland, trapping her on the island with the Cursed Author.
Vergil Patton is a prisoner in his own home.
Haunted by the ghosts of his past and tended to by a nurse with cold eyes and bitter tea, Vergil believes he is losing his mind. But Andrea isn't afraid of ghosts. She's an editor; she looks for plot holes.
As the storm rages and the lights go out, Andrea discovers that Vergil's madness is being manufactured. The voices in the walls are wired. The shadows have footprints. And the tragic accident that killed his wife was the first draft of a murder plot that isn't finished yet.
Now, the editor and the author must rewrite the ending before the killer arrives to liquidate the asset.
In a house built on secrets, the only thing more dangerous than the truth is the man trying to burn it down.
TROPES & THEMES:
Forced Proximity (Trapped by a storm)
Modern Gothic (Crumbling mansion, isolation, gaslighting)
Hurt/Comfort (Broken Hero & Tenacious Heroine)
Author x Editor (Workplace tension turned survival alliance)
Psychological Thriller (Is he crazy, or is he being watched?)
Neonoir Mystery (High contrast, cynicism, and rain-slicked danger)
One Bed / No Heat (The generator fails...)
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