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Deadly Affection
Catfishing, Crime, and BetrayalBy Violet C. Sable
Length14h 45m
About this audiobook
What if the one who loved you most only wanted your life?
Deadly Affection: Catfishing, Crime, and Betrayal is a bone-chilling anthology where horror, crime, and psychological suspense collide in intimate, unsettling ways. These aren’t love stories, they’re trapdoors. Each tale peels back the glossy veneer of online intimacy to expose how a soft voice and a pretty picture can turn a lonely heart into a disposable mule, how trust becomes contraband, and how “forever” can be the last word you ever read.
Every character in these pages makes the same fatal mistake: they believe in someone who never existed. And for that error, they pay in blood.
Within these twisted, atmospheric stories, you’ll encounter:
A gardener who tucks “I love you” notes beside concealed parcels, then feels the soil close over his face as the roses drink.
A devout student who slides packages into hymnals, only to learn the service is for him, and the wine isn’t meant for mercy.
An apprentice sealed in a furnace room for asking the wrong question, his loyalty reduced to ash before dawn.
A lantern festival that transforms into a firestorm, where a boy’s last wish burns as bright and brief as paper.
A lonely driver guided by tender texts down a black road to a waiting swamp, his screen still glowing beneath the water.
Across docks and deserts, empty apartments and abandoned chapels, these stories chart the same ruthless geometry: a message, a meeting, a disappearance. The bait is affection. The hook is need. The line is pulled tight by strangers who never use their real names.
Told in a cinematic, nerve-tightening style, Deadly Affection explores the predators who no longer lurk in alleys they curate profiles. It examines the soft mechanics of manipulation: drip-fed compliments, choreographed coincidences, and promises designed to make you carry the one thing you should never touch. It asks why desperation can look so much like devotion, and why the people we want most are often the ones we should fear.
If you crave psychological horror with a noir heartbeat stories steeped in dread, betrayal, and the slow suffocation of hope this collection will haunt you long after the final page. Fans of modern gothic tension and crime-soaked cautionary tales will find an anthology as addictive as it is devastating.
Read at night if you dare but keep your notifications off. Because in Deadly Affection, every “goodnight,” every filtered smile, every promise of a future is just another lure.
Do you trust the one who texts you goodnight?
After this book, you never will again.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length14 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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2018. Candles in the Cellar
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2119. Pale Windows
31. The Vanishing Point
2220. Final Broadcast
42. Sweet Lies by the River
2321. Shadows on the Pier
53. The Last Message
2422. The Red Thread
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64. Concrete Embrace
2523. Shattered Glass
75. The Island Trade
2624. The White Room
86. The Dollmaker’s Smile
2725. Crows at Dawn
97. Red Motel Room
2826. The Piercing Silence
108. The Lighthouse Keeper
2927. Cold Harbor
119. The Garden Grave
3028. Under the Tongue of Iron
1210. The Train That Never Arrived
3129. Lipstick on Porcelain
1311. The Furnace Room
3230. White Veins Over the Gorge
1412. The Hollow Chapel
3331. Ash Over Water
1513. Saltwater Kiss
3432. The Carnival That Would Not Close
1614. Silent Choir
3533. The Mouth That Remembered
1715. Echoes in the Forest
3634. The Tide That Kept the Promise
1816. Blackwater Road
3735. The Room That Learned to Glow
1917. The Rusted Swing
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