Stay Away (The Beocraftian Gambit - Book One)

All he wants is to save himself from the baggage of a troubled past. But she just won’t stay away.Twenty five years ago, Kevin’s parents were brutally murdered. Two decades later, Kevin is forced to watch helplessly as his fiancée suffers torture at the hands of the same murderer.Never fully recovering from the trauma, he moves into a new city, hoping to start his life anew, leaving his devastating past behind. But things doesn’t go as planned when he meets Natasha—the daughter of an officer hunting for his kind.They soon discover the battered corpse of a missing detective assigned to investigate the murder of his fiancée, which signalled a new danger. However, when the horror from his past returns, Kevin is forced to stay away from Natasha—or watch her fall victim to a ghoul who takes pleasure in tormenting him.

About the Author

Jeffrey Pope (C. J. Ogochukwu), a mechanical engineering student, is an avid reader who is obsessed with dark and twisted stories, with a bit of romance tossed in. When he writes, he takes his readers on a dark journey of suspense and twist, making it difficult for one to stop reading once they've started. As an introvert, writing novels is his only real way of expressing himself without making eye contact with anyone. He placed second in the November edition of D'Lit Review flash fiction contest. His writing has appeared in the 2022 Kepressing Anthology Prize.He spends the better part of his time playing chess—when he isn't writing or reading a book, and sometimes entertains himself by solving mathematical problems—this way he keeps his mind active and wired to create complicated twists and suspense in his plots.

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