If You Look Away

By: Burgess, Devona

Brynlee Hall has everything she's ever wanted-a close family, a beautiful home, and a life that gleams with comfort and certainty. But one ordinary Christmas morning, something small and disappointing begins to echo in her mind, a feeling she can't name or shake. As months pass, the world around her starts to feel slightly off-balance-reflections linger a second too long, familiar rooms hum with a quiet she can't explain, and her own thoughts begin to blur the line between imagination and memory.

Everyone insists she's fine. And maybe she is. But the more Brynlee tries to hold onto the life she's always known, the more she begins to sense that perfection can distort just as easily as it can protect.

If You Look Away is a haunting psychological thriller about perception, longing, and the fragile beauty of having everything you're supposed to want. Atmospheric and deeply human, it explores how easily the mind can turn on itself when the world refuses to break-and what happens when the cracks appear not in reality, but in us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FXGFHVDT
• ISBN13: 9798993568317
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Hollow Mark Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"