Chasity Phillips
The Dolorosa: A Story of Grief and Possession
Grief opened the door. Something ancient walked through.
Sonya Ruth had the perfect life—until miscarriage shattered her, and her husband Adam's affair broke what was left. But Adam's betrayal did more than destroy a marriage. It carved a door through which something patient and hungry slipped inside.
The Dolorosa doesn't haunt houses. It haunts the hollowed-out.…
Chasity Phillips
Headlamp in the Dark
What do you do when the person who always came running is the one person you can never call again?…
Chasity Phillips
The Hollow Chapel
What would you do if the house your family inherited wasn't just abandoned... it was waiting?
When Calvin Chambers loses everything, the only roof left over his family's heads is the crumbling Victorian estate at the end of Hollow Chapel Road, a property his father begged him never to touch. Buried deep in the Alabama pines behind the house sits a forgotten graveyard and a rotting chapel filled with hundreds of porcelain dolls, each one a silent witness to horrors no one in Crooked Oak dares name out loud.…
Chasity Phillips
Beneath the Rock
What would you do if the person you trusted most was the one you should fear?
Mary Hamilton grew up believing her mother worked herself to the bone for her — two jobs, sleepless nights, tired eyes. She told herself that was love. But looking back, the cracks were always there. The late-night phone call her mother didn't want her to hear. The emergency money tin, wiped clean without explanation. The morning her mother dressed up in perfume and curled hair and left for work without her uniform. Small things. Strange things. The kind of things a fourteen-year-old tells herself mean nothing.…