Taylor Halethorpe’s life is about to change.

Once a literary darling, Taylor Halethorpe was poised to be the voice of a generation. But nearly a decade after her debut novel, Glass Heels, took the world by storm, her career stalled, her finances dwindling, and the words that once flowed so easily have abandoned her.
With nothing left, she returns to the Halethorpe Estate—her mother’s final gift and her family’s oldest secret. There, Taylor is forced to confront an inevitable truth: something lingers within these walls, whispering, taunting, begging her to tell its stories.
Lured by promises of glory, she agrees too quickly—only to realize that the cost of the stories buried beneath the floorboards may be far greater than she ever imagined.

Will the Estate hold on to Taylor, binding her to the tales hidden inside, or will she fall to its power and become another story lost behind the wallpaper?

The Writing in the Walls is a Gothic literary thriller about ambition, self-destruction, and the ghosts we can’t outrun

Aly Anders crafts a novel dense with suspense and tension, weaving a haunting tale of legacy, obsession, and the fine line between genius and madness. With prose as sharp as broken glass and a setting that breathes like a living thing, this story lingers long after the final page.

What are readers saying?

✨ “The Writing in the Walls is one of those stories that will stick with you for a long time. 5/5.” – Alpha Reader

✨ “A beautifully tragic character study wrapped in an eerie, unsettling mystery. Taylor Halethorpe’s descent into obsession and self-destruction is as mesmerizing as it is devastating.” – ARC Reader

✨ “Aly Anders writes with the kind of lyrical precision that makes every sentence feel like a spell. This is a novel for readers who love their gothic fiction with bite.” – Beta Reader