Hello Readers,
Below is the book description for Ezra’s Secret. Official publication will be on August 18th. Formats will include digital, paperback and hardback. My cover designer and I will have the cover completed soon and I will send over the official cover reveal at that time along with links on where to find the story.
The first five chapters will go live this evening to all paid subscribers. You’ll be the first to experience the tragedy and heartache that is Ezra’s story.
Until next time, be safe and be awesome and keep on reading.
With gratitude,
PD Alleva
NYC. January, 1955.
Something is wrong with Ezra—and it isn’t the kind of wrong you can pray away.
She turned fifteen a month ago. Since then, the world has begun to slip. Questions about her body, her mind, her very existence are met with silence—at home, at school, even beneath the cold gaze of the nuns who preach certainty but offer none. Everyone knows something.
No one will tell her.
Then there’s the hum.
Low. Constant. Alive.
It vibrates through the bones of the city—and through her. It follows her into sleep, into waking, into the fragile refuge of her “daydreams,” a place of blooming fields and quiet skies that once felt like escape… and now feels like something else entirely.
Because Ezra is no longer sure she’s imagining it.
When a strange street vendor offers her a path to the truth, she’s sent into the shadows of Central Park—into a hidden cave where something ancient waits. A small figurine. A simple object.
A key.
But truth has a cost. And some doors don’t open—they consume.
As Ezra peels back the layers of her reality, she begins to uncover a truth buried deep within… one shaped by silence, by fear, and by things no one was ever meant to speak aloud.
Some secrets aren’t hidden in the dark.
They’re hidden in plain sight—protected by those who should have told the truth.
And as the walls close in, Ezra begins to understand:
The real horror isn’t what’s waiting for her in the shadows—
It’s the truth they’ve buried all along.
Ezra’s Secret is a chilling descent into identity, possession, and the quiet terror of becoming something you were never meant to be.
