The Face Beside Me: A Blackmere Mystery

By Kael Drax

In the shadowed village of Blackmere, trust is deadliest when it wears a familiar face.

When Mara Vale enters the underground mirror chamber beneath the village church, she is forced to make an impossible choice between two identical men, both claiming to be Rowan Mercer. She walks one of them back into the light. But certainty never returns.

Weeks later, Blackmere appears calm again. The bakery reopens. Sunday bells ring. Rowan resumes his work as the village doctor. Life settles into routine. Yet Mara knows better than to trust peace that arrives too neatly.

Then Rowan speaks a sentence he should never know.

As reflections begin to feel wrong again and buried family bargains claw their way back to the surface, Mara must confront a darker possibility. The threat haunting Blackmere does not always replace people. Sometimes it changes them from within.

The Face Beside Me is a tense, atmospheric psychological mystery filled with identity dread, buried secrets, and slow-burning suspense. Perfect for readers who love gothic villages, intelligent heroines, chilling twists, and mysteries where the scariest thing in the room may already be someone you love.

Book 3 in the gripping Blackmere Mystery series by Kael Drax.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZ6N44GM
• ISBN13: 9798259499577
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"