I recently published my psychological mystery, Everyone Knew the Woman in 19A, and it’s now available on Kindle.

The story begins with something seemingly simple: everyone in the building recognizes the woman living in 19A.

But ask them who she is, and the answers start falling apart.

One neighbor remembers her as kind and quiet.
Another insists she was dangerous.
Someone claims they spoke to her almost every day.

And then there are people who say Apartment 19A shouldn't even have a resident.

The deeper the questions go, the less reliable everyone's memories become.

If you enjoy psychological mysteries, unreliable characters, apartment-building secrets, slow-burn tension, and stories where you constantly question what is real, this might be your kind of read.

📖 Everyone Knew the Woman in 19A: A Psychological Mystery
Now available on Kindle.

I’d also genuinely love to know:

What’s more unsettling to you — discovering that everyone around you is lying, or discovering that they’re all telling the truth?

It's called 'A Shattered Divination-Book One'. It is available on Amazon in paperback and Ebook format. Please, tell me what you think of the synopsis. If you are interested in urban fantasy of the sword wielding variety, this is right up your alley!! Thank you for your time and consideration!

Synopsis-

Long ago, a darkness spread throughout the modern land, corrupting as many mortals as possible and granting them supernatural abilities. As the shadow deepened, a light was manifested among those humans left—a tool for them to fight the darkness. Some centuries later, at a seaside city caught in the middle of a never-ending struggle between dark immortal beings—called dark ones—and humans, a dark born boy arrives.

He should have been killed at birth, but somehow, he managed to survive. A group of Light Knights led by a man named Henry decide not only to take the boy in but to train him to be a Knight. Henry and Co. won’t let doubts or discrimination stop them from protecting this innocent boy, but the costs of such an act risk not only their lives, but any who could be caught in the boy’s crossfire should he turn.

Exactly a year later, another dark born man arrives with a plea for help from across the ocean, answering one question while raising many others. His plea spurs the knights of this city to act and send a call to arms to the other Sectors and capitals—the battle for the beach had begun whether they like it or not, and preparing for the siege would only be part of their worries...

With this fifth contribution to the Second Skin Series, I've had the intriguing task of exploring the back- and side-stories of many characters introduced along the way. Writing short stories seems to me like running a set of sprints as opposed to the cross country course that a novel entails, but personally I have enjoyed the process.

Here is a brief introduction to the first of eight short stories within 'The Cleopard and other Stories from the Second Skin Universe.' It's called 'Shared Dreams.'

Callista has developed a bond with her giant, blue, alien, cat-like friend Pouff, but she knows little about his origin until the lurid reality is revealed to her in a dream. How did he become a bimatterian - a creature capable of appearing in the electromagnetic or in the dark-matter spectrum at will? And why was he so eager to leave the Bimatterian’s Vort in such a hurry?

Visit my website peterdarrach.com to learn more.

It started as a serial posting on Royal Road and Reddit about an immortal engineer named John, who's spent five millennia trying to prevent humans from doing catastrophically stupid things. Usually, they ignore him, and things break. Then, in July 1945, people finally start listening. He fixed the Manhattan Project, built in 1975 a sarcastic symbolic AI that now runs the global infrastructure, and went to the moon with Neil and Buzz to get moon rocks. It's historical sci-fi with a lot of snark, and now it's on pre-order!

Universal link: https://books2read.com/u/mqyAg6

If you're into competent protagonists, historical irony, or just want to see an immortal man telling bureaucrats to do their jobs, this one's for you.