He will be found

Dr. Celeste Harrow has spent her career inside the silence that follows pain. For seventeen years, she's been the therapist other people trust-the one who can sit through the pauses, translate the unspoken, and turn suffering into something that fits neatly inside a file. Her small Arizona practice, Casa Verde Clinic, has always been a refuge from the noise of the world: clean lines, soft light, a ritual order that keeps chaos outside the door.
Until the morning a new case appears in her encrypted inbox. There is no referral. No intake. No client. Just a single folder labeled Session 1, its header bearing her signature and a time stamp eleven minutes into the future. The note inside reads like one of her own therapy summaries-but the name on it belongs to a teenager she has never met. Within days, another file arrives. Then another. Each one describes a new "client" in precise, clinical detail: their habits, their trauma, the exact circumstances of their death.
Deaths that haven't happened yet. The handwriting is hers. As Celeste tries to trace the source, she's drawn into a widening circle of impossible events-a police welfare check that seems to replay itself in real time, surveillance footage that edits itself as she watches, and a voice on her clinic intercom that sounds like her own, taking notes she doesn't remember recording. Her only ally, Officer Dana Ruiz, believes they're uncovering evidence of a digital crime.
But when Ruiz's body-camera feed begins transmitting from inside Celeste's office, both women realize they're participants in something far stranger than data corruption. Reality narrows to one building, two hallways, and the mirrored glass between them. Every sound, every breath, every entry she writes begins to generate the next. Every attempt at containment only deepens the loop. The act of observation-the very language she has built her life on-has turned against her.
Now, as the files begin documenting her own sessions before she lives them, Celeste must confront the final diagnosis: the line between therapist and subject was never real. The Therapist's Files is a 450 000-word psychological thriller from Martin Gangley, the author of A Meeting with My Inner Child and Behind the Badge. Set within the claustrophobic stillness of a quarantined clinic, it explores the unseen toll of empathy and the haunting precision of self-observation.
Every page unfolds like a case note, every paragraph a record of a mind trying to stay professional while the world rewrites itself around her. Methodical. Intimate. Terrifying in its realism, The Therapist's Files asks one question that no amount of therapy can answer-When the listener becomes the subject, who writes the final report?