The Forest That Merrill Grew

<p><strong>He embalms the dead. But no one ever taught him how to bury his own mind.</strong></p><p><strong>Merrill Crowley 27 is a mortician by day - and a haunted man by every other hour. After one unspeakable tragedy his already fragile world fractures. Grief turns to delusion. Silence becomes a voice. And in that voice... a new version of himself takes root.</strong></p><p><strong>With the law closing in and his mind slipping further into hallucination Merrill finds himself unraveling alongside his sins - guided by Ritz his shadow his conscience his double.</strong></p><p><em><strong>The Forest That Merrill Grew</strong></em><strong> is a psychological horror tale told through a grieving narrator who may not survive his own story. </strong><em><strong>What happens when death feels safer than living? </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Who are you when no one's watching?</strong></em></p><p><br> </p>