The Haunting of Matthew Thorne

One last con. One mysterious man. One summer that changes everything.As the sweltering heat of the French Riviera summer blazes, Stella and her boyfriend Gary are drowning in debt. Owing a dangerous sum to local gangsters, they’re running out of time – and options. Stella’s last chance? Seduce wealthy tourists in the city’s most exclusive bars and bleed them for cash.But then she meets Matthew Thorne.Charming, elegant, and strangely broken, Matthew lives alone in a sprawling mansion high above the city. Or so he claims. Because something else is there – a presence, silent and watchful in the shadowed halls. And the more time Stella spends with Matthew, the more convinced she becomes that he’s haunted… by something far worse than guilt.What began as a simple scam becomes a descent into obsession, secrets, and fate. Matthew seems to know something about the future – something tied to a boy who once stepped into a mysterious tent at a forgotten fairground.Is destiny already written? Or can it still be outrun?The Haunting of Matthew Thorne is a ghostly thriller about broken lives, long-buried secrets, and the chilling price of trying to change something that should never have happened.