Kill the Thing You Love
A Novel
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Kill the Thing You Love
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Narrated by:
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Ava Lucas
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Sean Crisden
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Rob Shapiro
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By:
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M. R. Collings
In this twisty psychological thriller, a family man’s perfect life splinters into obsession, delusion, and dangerous secrets after the reappearance of his first love—who died eighteen years ago.
Hospital exec Ethan Bell has it all: a loving wife, two children, a promising career, and a comfortable home in the Seattle suburbs far removed from the darkness of his past.
Until he sees her.
Fawn Blom, Ethan’s high school sweetheart and first love. The girl who’s haunted him since that fatal accident almost twenty years ago. She’s here, at his favorite coffee shop—definitely not dead. And suddenly, his carefully constructed world doesn’t seem so perfect.
Consumed with the promise of a second chance, Ethan’s obsession with Fawn grows, deepening with each lie he tells, every erratic behavior he can’t explain away. But his former psychiatrist isn’t convinced Fawn is real.
As Ethan struggles to reconcile his long-held grief, the fabric of his reality slowly unravels. And if it turns out Fawn isn’t actually there, everything he’s built—everything he’s hoped for—could disappear for good.
© 2027 by Melissa Robin Collings. ℗ 2026 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Critic reviews
“No one is who they seem. Nothing is what it seems in this page turner of a suspense where perception and reality are dangerously two different things.” —Georgina Cross, bestselling author of The Stepdaughter and Nanny Needed
“Kill the Thing You Love is a creepy, twisted, just-one-more-page, up-all-night-with-the-lights-on thriller. Collings has crafted a truly unique story that borders on the knife’s edge of obsession and terror. A brilliant crime fiction debut.” —J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of You Know Why
“One of the things that makes M. R. Collings such a compelling writer is her deep, nuanced understanding of the human condition. In Kill the Thing You Love, Collings explores grief in its many forms, including loss, longing, guilt—and fear. Once you’ve read this book, you’ll want to read it again.” —John DeDakis, novelist, writing coach, former CNN editor, and certified grief educator