Every Night at 2

Every night, I wake at exactly 2:17 a.m.

Then someone knocks three times from inside my bedroom wall.

Mara Voss came to Wren Street for a fresh start.

A new house.
A new life.
A safe place for her and her twelve-year-old daughter, Ivy.

Then the knocking begins.

Three knocks.

Always at exactly 2:17 a.m.

At first, Mara blames the pipes. The old house. Her imagination.

Until she discovers an unplugged alarm clock hidden in the attic.

Its display is frozen at:

2:17.

Then she learns about Celia Ward.

The woman who lived in the house before her.

The woman who disappeared without explanation eleven years ago.

And the woman standing beside Mara in an old photograph...

even though Mara has no memory of ever meeting her.

Soon, impossible pieces of Mara's past begin appearing throughout the house.

A red marble hidden inside a wall.

A basement door that shouldn't exist.

A cassette recording of two teenage girls.

And one of the voices belongs to Mara.

On the recording, she makes a promise:

Never tell anyone what happened at 2:17.

But Mara doesn't remember making it.

She doesn't remember Celia.

And when she investigates her childhood, she discovers something even more disturbing.

An entire year of her life is missing.

Then Ivy hears the knocking too.

Except Ivy insists it isn't coming from the wall.

It's coming from underneath the floor.

Behind a sealed section of the basement, Mara uncovers evidence of an experimental sleep study run decades earlier by her own father—a respected researcher who believed memories could be altered by waking subjects at precisely controlled times.

The signal for each session?

Three knocks.

The time?

2:17 a.m.

Now someone is repeating the experiment.

Mara's cameras mysteriously fail every night at 2:16.

Objects from her childhood begin appearing inside the house.

And someone leaves a message meant only for her:

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO FORGET.

To protect Ivy, Mara must reconstruct the night seventeen years ago when a basement caught fire, a teenage boy disappeared, and Celia Ward escaped with a secret powerful enough to destroy everything Mara believed about her family.

But the closer Mara gets to remembering, the more terrifying the truth becomes.

Because she wasn't simply a victim of what happened in that house.

She helped create it.

And the person waking her every night may not be trying to frighten her.

They may be trying to save her.

Every Night at 2:17 is a dark psychological thriller about manipulated memory, childhood secrets, an isolated house, dangerous experiments, and the terrifying things the mind can bury in order to survive.

Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, mysterious houses, psychological experiments, buried family secrets, missing people, eerie late-night mysteries, and twists that completely change the meaning of everything that came before.

Every night at 2:17, someone knocks three times.

Tonight, I'm finally going to answer.