Seil

He had everything. Then came the nightmares.

Seil Roberts is living the life many only dream of. A beautiful, supportive wife. Two happy children. A six-figure salary doing the work he loves. His world is comfortable, complete—and utterly safe.

Until the nightmares begin.

Dark, vivid, and increasingly disturbing, they tear through his sleep with haunting regularity, leaving Seil rattled and restless. He tries to dismiss them as stress. Just dreams. Nothing more.

But when a strange, cryptic phone call interrupts his day, everything changes. The voice on the other end triggers something deep inside him—something buried and long forgotten. Suddenly, the nightmares feel less like imagination… and more like memory.

Drawn into a chilling mystery, Seil discovers a decades-old case involving six missing children—faces no one remembers, stories no one wants to tell. As he digs deeper, strange connections surface. Places he knows too well. Details he shouldn’t remember. Names that send a shiver down his spine.
Reality begins to fracture. The boundaries between past and present blur. Seil is no longer sure what’s real and what isn’t. But one thing becomes terrifyingly clear: the answers lie in his dreams.

To uncover the truth, Seil must confront the darkest corners of his mind—and a secret buried so deep, even he doesn’t know it’s there. The closer he gets, the more he risks losing everything he loves.

And in the end, he must ask himself: is he ready to know what really happened?

A gripping psychological thriller about memory, trauma, and the shadows of the past—Seil will keep you turning pages late into the night.

About the author

Morné Dieperink was born in 1994 in Bethal, South Africa, and grew up in the small town of Meyerton. As a kid, he found his escape in books, and that love for reading eventually sparked a dream of becoming a writer. While he studied Electrical Engineering, his real passion has always been storytelling. Seil is his debut novel—one he poured his heart into—and he hopes readers enjoy it as much as he enjoyed writing it. He’s already working on his next two books, so stay tuned!

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