Loraine Hambly

A life doesn't collapse all at once. It's dismantled; quietly, methodically, over years. A New Zealand educator whose world is destabilized by a pattern she cannot ignore: recurring intrusions, escalating pressure, and institutions that seem to close ranks at the moment she seeks help. Doors close. Allies vanish. Official explanations arrive too neatly. And the more she tries to name what's happening, the more reality begins to distort-until paranoia, prophecy, and spiritual warfare blur into a single, terrifying question:Is she unraveling.
or finally seeing the machinery behind the world?Dark, visionary, and psychologically intense, THE USURPERS blends occult undertones with disaster-era dread for readers who crave conspiratorial thrillers and metaphysical fiction.