The First Cut: The Masks We Keep

By: Fraser, G. J.

THE FIRST CUT
Book One of The Masks We Keep

David Pike is the man you pass on the street without a second thought.
Polite. Steady. Invisible.

But behind the easy smile and careful routine lies something else - a mind sharpened to a blade's edge, shaped by an accident that was never an accident. The first cut was clumsy. Emotional. Necessary. Every one since has been calculated.

Now, Pike is drawn into a shadowy contest known only as the Game - a web of watchers, players, and rules that reward precision and punish hesitation. To survive, he must keep two lives in perfect balance: the one everyone sees, and the one no one can ever know.

But in the Game, even predators are prey.
And the ghost moving across the board knows exactly how to make Pike bleed.

The First Cut is a tense, unnerving descent into the mind of a killer - and the dangerous world that decides who gets to live, who has to die, and who keeps the mask on the longest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FM8NM4FP
• ISBN13: 9798297834194
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"