Ava Montgomery is Hollywood's queen of method acting, worshiped for how completely she disappears into every role. Her latest part—Lillian, a woman trapped in her own unraveling mind—should be the role of a lifetime. But as the cameras roll, the character doesn't stay on set.
Whispers Ava can't quite hear crawl into the quiet moments. Reflections move when she doesn't. Her co-stars' jokes sound like conspiracies, her fiancé's concern feels like betrayal, and a devoted fan's admiration looks more and more like an angle. When an on-set "accident" turns deadly, Ava is the only one who knows it wasn't an accident at all—because she was there when the first skull cracked. And the second.
While the media circles and a relentless detective starts connecting a string of disappearances to her orbit, Ava becomes both star and suspect in a horror story she might be directing herself. Bodies vanish into the mouths of lions at the Philadelphia Zoo, and the voice of Lillian won't get out of her head.
Crimson Delirium is a psychological horror spiral into fame, obsession, and madness—perfect for readers who love unreliable narrators, Hollywood nightmares, and stories where you're never sure if the monster is real… or if it's you.