THE APEX
A tragic death. A faith questioning crisis. Will one woman’s grief lead to her undoing? Kristen Hardy is tormented by loss. After her miracle daughter dies in a freak accident, the devout Catholic struggles to reconcile that the God who once answered her prayers allowed the eleven year old to be ripped from her world. So she’s determined to cut all ties with her long term spirituality and signs up for a brain altering research procedure. Despite her atheist husband’s reservations, Kristen undergoes sessions and finds relief in losing her religious convictions while he drowns in endless sorrow. But she’s soon doubting her wisdom as she juggles a slippery grasp on reality and the discovery of an ancient being preying on her remaining family… Can she stop her devastating spiral into madness?
More about The Apex…
What kind of thriller is it?
The Apex is a contemporary psychological thriller with speculative and supernatural elements, combining grief, faith and an experimental brain procedure with altered perception and the possibility of something ancient and inexplicable.
Who is it for?
For readers who enjoy psychological thrillers that leave them questioning what’s real. The Apex blends religious doubt, altered perception and creeping supernatural dread, keeping open the question of whether its disturbing events have a psychological, scientific or supernatural explanation.
Themes
Grief · faith and doubt · motherhood · identity · sanity and reality · religious belief · altered perception · the unexplained