The Watching Hours: A Novel of Obsession and Survival
He's never met her. He knows everything about her anyway.
When Detective Mara Voss takes a call from a terrified grad student being followed home from the library, it looks like an isolated case. It isn't.
Over the next year, Mara uncovers case after case that share no suspect, no evidence, and no explanation - except one. Different men, in different cities, all convinced of the exact same thing: that watching a woman closely enough is the same as knowing her. That surveillance is intimacy. That her consent was never really the point.
Mara calls it the current. She's the only one tracking where it flows next.
A radio host whose smart home starts reporting his life to a stranger. An actress erased online and replaced by a version of herself she never agreed to. A single mother failed twice by a system that calls her fear "not enough." A true-crime podcaster who exposes the pattern - and becomes its next target.
As the bodies of evidence pile up on Mara's apartment wall, so does the danger - to her survivors, and finally, to her. The man she eventually finds isn't a mastermind. He's worse: ordinary, patient, and horrifyingly sincere about the damage he's caused. Catching him won't stop what he started.
But it might be enough to finally build something the system never offered any of them: a room where nobody has to survive this alone.
THE WATCHING HOURS: A Novel of Obsession and Survival is a gripping, interconnected suspense novel about the thin, terrifying line between being seen and being hunted - and the survivors who refuse to disappear either way.
Contains depictions of stalking, harassment, coercion, and sexual assault. A list of real support resources is included at the end of this book.
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