The Cage We Built: a Gripping Psychological Thriller with Shocking Twist

They locked the door to keep him safe. They were dead wrong.A chilling, fast-paced psychological thriller about a family pushed to the brink and the deadly secrets buried in their own backyard.Fourteen-year-old Leo is the only one awake when the storm breaks. Looking out his bedroom window, he sees a masked man rhythmically digging a six-foot grave in the mud behind their property line. But when his father investigates, there is no man-only churned earth and shadows.Chloe is a mother drowning in exhaustion. Desperate to help her spiraling son, she puts her absolute trust in Dr. Simon Adler, a renowned behavioral specialist. Adler's diagnosis is devastating: Leo's paranoia has fractured his reality, causing him to sleepwalk and dig the holes himself. Adler's treatment plan is strict, clinical, and severe-medicate the boy and physically lock him inside his bedroom for his own survival.But Leo knows he isn't crazy, and he knows he isn't the one holding the shovel. Trapped behind a brass deadbolt, Leo must outsmart his heavily sedated mind and his well-meaning parents to expose the predator sitting at their kitchen counter. Because the bulldozers are coming to clear the woods in exactly seven days-and the man in the woods will kill anyone who gets in the way of what he buried ten years ago.Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, John Marrs, and Shari Lapena, The Cage We Built is a pulse-pounding domestic thriller that will make you question who you trust, who you let into your home, and what you're willing to do to survive.