Release Date: January 19, 2027
About The Book:
Hospital exec Ethan Bell has it all: a loving wife, two children, a promising career, and a comfortable home in the Seattle suburbs far removed from the darkness of his past.
Until he sees her.
Fawn Blom, Ethan’s high school sweetheart and first love. The girl who’s haunted him since that fatal accident almost twenty years ago. She’s here, at his favorite coffee shop—definitely not dead. And suddenly, his carefully constructed world doesn’t seem so perfect.
Consumed with the promise of a second chance, Ethan’s obsession with Fawn grows, deepening with each lie he tells, every erratic behavior he can’t explain away. But his former psychiatrist isn’t convinced Fawn is real.
As Ethan struggles to reconcile his long-held grief, the fabric of his reality slowly unravels. And if it turns out Fawn isn’t actually there, everything he’s built—everything he’s hoped for—could disappear for good.
About The Author:
M. R. Collings is an award-winning author and former spine surgery PA who traded the OR for the page. Drawing on her medical background and fascination with human behavior, she writes psychologically layered stories exploring the tensions between love and obsession, identity and illusion, and truth and perception. As Melissa R. Collings, she also writes humorous, heartwarmingly romantic stories about the messy, beautiful ways we love and grow.
When not writing or plotting, M. R. likes studying preventive health, losing herself in a painting, and having deep conversations with her husband and two children in Nashville. Her imagination often lands her in trouble, and she lives by one philosophy: Nothing is impossible—even when the darkness says otherwise.
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Blurbs:
“KILL THE THING YOU LOVE is a creepy, twisted, just-one-more-page, up-all-night-with-the-lights-on thriller. Collings has crafted a truly unique story that borders on the knife’s edge of obsession and terror. A brilliant crime fiction debut.”—J.T. Ellison, New York Times Bestselling author of YOU KNOW WHY?
“No one is who they seem. Nothing is what it seems in this page turner of a suspense where perception and reality are dangerously two different things.” —Georgina Cross, bestselling author of The Stepdaughter and Nanny Needed
“What is real? What is illusion? How much can we trust our own minds? Collings deftly immerses you in each character’s head, taking the psychological thriller genre to a whole new level. Fans of Gone Girl and The Silent Patient, eat your hearts out.”—Lauren Nossett, award-winning author of Indie Darling
“One of the things that makes M.R. Collings such a compelling writer is her deep, nuanced understanding of the human condition. In Kill the Thing You Love, Collings explores grief in its many forms, including loss, longing, guilt—and fear. Once you’ve read this book, you’ll want to read it again.”—John DeDakis, Novelist, Writing Coach, former CNN Editor, and Certified Grief Educator.
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