About the Novel

A first-person story in the vein of Let the Right One In and The Fisherman, about a man haunted—first figuratively, then literally—by a girl he first saw at his bedroom window when he was six years old. With themes of trauma, addiction, and spiritual reckoning, Vera follows a deeply personal descent into darkness as a man confronts the haunting figure from his past and the primal forces that threaten to consume him.

What begins as a testimony to his ex-wife becomes a descent into the blurred territory between memory and madness. As the haunting figure from his past draws nearer, James must confront whether he can survive long enough to leave behind the truth—and why he believes this may be the last thing he ever writes.