The Counted Steps: He knew every move before she made it

By Remi Palapu

The Counted Steps
He knew every move before she made it.

Sarah Calloway spent three years building a life that felt safe.
A new city.
A new routine.
A carefully constructed world designed to keep the past exactly where it belonged.
Then she notices the shadows.
A figure standing too long at the end of the street.
A presence that appears just often enough to feel wrong.
A text message from an unknown number:
You are not alone.
Someone is watching.
Someone is counting.
Someone knows more about her life than they should.

As Sarah's carefully controlled world begins to fracture, she is pulled into a dangerous game of surveillance, obsession, and psychological manipulation. But the deeper she searches for the truth, the more she realizes that there may be more than one watcher-and not all of them are enemies.
In a world where every habit leaves a pattern and every pattern can be exploited, the line between protector and predator becomes terrifyingly thin.

Who is watching?
Why now?

And what happens when the person tracking your every move already knows where you're going next?
The Counted Steps is a gripping psychological thriller packed with suspense, mystery, tension, mind games, stalking, hidden motives, and shocking revelations. Perfect for readers who enjoy intelligent suspense novels, psychological suspense, domestic thrillers, cat-and-mouse thrillers, crime fiction, and slow-burning mysteries that keep you guessing until the final page.
If you enjoy psychological thriller books featuring obsessive characters, suspenseful investigations, hidden secrets, unreliable appearances, and edge-of-your-seat tension, then The Counted Steps will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Every routine leaves a trace.
Every trace tells a story.
And someone is counting your steps.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H55NCC1Z
• ISBN13: 9798181385122
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"