August 26, 2026 - fundinmentalfundinmental

MY REVIEW

No doubt about it. P D Alleva can write a story that will ‘rip out the heart of humanity…to be feasted upon’. Ezra’s Secret is sure to take you to the depths of hell and back again. It’s not enough to say something is wrong with Ezra. Ezra’s Secret shares the origin story of Wren Field, the villain from The Sleepy Hollow Incident: A Gothic Tale.

In Ezra’s Secret, P D Alleva delves into the psychological trauma resulting from childhood sexual abuse, so brace yourself. His real life world as a trauma therapist makes the story stick to me. It makes me wonder how many times the abuse happens in real life. You had all my emotions roiled up.

P D Alleva, you amaze me with your ability to create such disturbing stories. I love wallowing in the darkness with you.

Ezra’s Secret is a fast paced novella that made me cringe, filled with many triggers for those faint of heart, so enter at your own risk.

GOODREADS BLURB

NYC. January, 1955.

Something is wrong with Ezra—and it isn’t the kind of wrong you can pray away.

Ever since her fifteenth birthday, the world has begun to slip. Questions about who she is are met with silence, while a strange hum follows her through the city and into her dreams. When a mysterious street vendor offers her a path to the truth, Ezra is drawn into the shadows of Central Park, where an ancient secret waits.

But some truths come at a terrible cost.

As Ezra peels back the layers of her reality, she uncovers a horrifying secret buried beneath years of silence and fear. And she soon learns that the greatest horrors aren’t hiding in the shadows.

They’re hiding in plain sight.

Ezra’s Secret is a chilling psychological horror novel about identity, trauma, and the terrifying cost of uncovering the truth.

Genre: Fiction, Horror, Psychological
101 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 18, 2026 by Chamber Door Publishing, LLC

ABOUT P D ALLEVA

I write books, that’s what I do. Horror, scifi, thrillers, fantasy, and sometimes a literary gem. Good ones, crazy ones, fun books, entertaining books, terrifying books that are absolutely insane, books with depth and thrills, and stories that rip out the heart of humanity and tosses it on a slab to be feasted on. Yeah, that’s what I do, I write books. Any questions?

My current projects include: the Pulp Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy series, The Dark Veil: The Rose Vol. III; the horror thriller novella series, Girl on a Mission; the supernatural thriller series, The Hypnotist; and a follow up to Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect, tentatively titled The Sleepy Hollow Incident.

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