The Mouth in the Wall (The Listening Walls Series Book 1)

Tessa Mirell moves into Blackthorn Apartments believing it will only be temporary—a cheap place to recover after the collapse of her marriage and career. But the aging Los Angeles building has a reputation its tenants rarely speak about aloud.

At night, whispers travel through the walls.

Pipes seem to breathe.

Conversations echo from empty rooms.

And people who leave are sometimes never seen again.

When renovation workers uncover human teeth embedded deep inside the drywall, Tessa begins documenting the strange changes spreading through the building: walls that pulse like living tissue, hidden hallways that should not exist, voices that predict conversations before they happen, and mouths forming inside cracks in the plaster.

As Blackthorn Apartments slowly transforms into something alive, Tessa discovers the horrifying truth hidden beneath decades of disappearances, isolation, and buried trauma.

The building is not haunted.

It is listening.

Atmospheric, unsettling, and psychologically immersive, The Mouth in the Wall is a slow-burn psychological horror thriller blending analog horror, body horror, urban dread, and emotional suspense into a haunting nightmare readers will not forget.