The Keeper's Ledger

When Evelyn Ward returns to her late grandfather's seaside home, she expects dust, memories, and the bittersweet work of packing away a lifetime. What she doesn't expect is the leather-bound book she discovers tucked away in his study. At first glance, it looks like an old ledger. But the entries inside are anything but ordinary: neat rows of names, each paired with an exact date, time, and method of death.
Names she recognizes, names of people in her town, and at the bottom of the final page, her own. Three weeks from now. Desperate to outwit a fate inked in pages older than her, Evie finds herself drawn into a chilling mystery that spans generations. Every attempt to change the future only twists it tighter, accidents mounting, shadows lengthening. A figure seems to watch her from across streets and behind windows, and whispers from her grandfather's hidden journal hint that she isn't the first to bear the burden of keeping the ledger.
But the book is alive, rewriting itself in real time. And the closer the pages turn toward her appointed hour, the harder the ledger fights back. As friends turn into names in ink, Evie must confront the truth: some debts can't be escaped, and some books are never meant to be opened. A haunting blend of gothic suspense and psychological terror, The Keeper's Ledger is a story of inherited secrets, inevitable endings, and the terrible cost of trying to outrun death itself.