The Curated Life: A Psychological Suspense Novel of an Influencer, a Stalker, and Buried Secrets

Sloane Mercer has built a life that looks effortless from the outside. Her kitchen glows on camera. Her home feels warm and inviting. Her followers see a woman who has mastered beauty, order, and intimacy, and they believe what she gives them is real. But the life Sloane has arranged so carefully is beginning to shift. A message arrives. Then another. A feeling settles over the house, quiet at first, then impossible to ignore.
Someone is watching. Someone knows where the performance ends and the truth begins. As fear presses closer, Sloane is forced to face what she has spent years controlling: the private compromises, the hidden betrayals, and the parts of herself she has kept just out of frame. What begins as unease turns into exposure. The safety of marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood routine starts to splinter. Every room in her home holds a memory.
Every post she once shared so easily becomes a risk. And the more she tries to protect the life she loves, the more she is drawn toward the secret at the center of it. The Curated Life is a tense, intimate novel about image, desire, and the danger of being truly seen. It is about the stories people tell to survive, and what happens when someone decides to tear those stories apart.