The Roommate (Deadly Ambition collection)
What starts as a relaxing Friday evening for Elena, wine in hand and a new crime drama on the telly, quickly turns into something far more unsettling. The show playing out on screen isn't just familiar. It's her story, beat for beat, mirroring a horrific night she's spent years burying deep. Someone, somehow, knows what happened. And if that truth surfaces, she stands to lose everything she's built since. Andrea Mara, a Sunday Times bestselling author, packs a serious amount of dread into this short story. It's tight, tense, and moves at a real clip. The central premise is genuinely unnerving, the kind of idea that makes you shift uncomfortably in your seat. The Roommate sits within the Deadly Ambition collection, a set of stories circling themes of greed, control, and the darker consequences of wanting more. Each piece is self-contained, short enough to read or listen to in a single sitting. If you're after something compact but properly chilling, this delivers.
- Author: Andrea Mara
- Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
- Genre: True Crime
- ISBN: 978-1662538322
- Pages: 39 pages