The Golden Vessel

The Golden VesselTommy Stevens has spent six years singing another man's songs. As the country's most requested Vince Gary tribute act, he's built a career out of imitation-the voice, the walk, the signature hip-tap before he launches into "Wildfire Calling." He's good. He's just never been good enough to matter, not the way the real Vince Gary mattered before a highway crash took him at twenty-eight.
Then Angie finds him. She's beautiful, mysterious, and impossibly knowledgeable about a man who's been dead for fifty years. She offers Tommy a cup of tea and a promise: the talent he's always wanted, the voice he's never had, the career he's always deserved. What she doesn't tell him is the price. As Tommy's star rises, he begins losing hours, then days-waking up in places he doesn't remember going, speaking in a cadence that isn't his, wanting things that were never his to want.
Somewhere underneath the fame he's finally earned, the man he used to be is disappearing, replaced one borrowed gesture at a time by someone who died before Tommy was even born. He isn't the first man Angie has done this to. He won't be the last-unless he can find a way to become something the process was never built to survive: himself. The Golden Vessel is a psychological horror novel about obsession, grief, and the terrifying cost of wanting to be someone else.
Part supernatural slow-burn, part devastating love story, it asks the question that haunts every page: when someone offers you everything you've ever wanted, what are you actually agreeing to give up?