I See You

I SEE YOU
By Thomas Hauser

You don’t know when it starts. There are no footsteps behind you, no eyes in the dark, no sudden moment of terror. Just the feeling... deep and instinctive... that something is watching. When fifteen-year-old Wren Holloway heads into the wilderness with her parents for a weekend camping trip, she expects boredom, tension, and discomfort. What she doesn’t expect is for the forest itself to turn against her.

The trails begin to change. Voices whisper her name in her own voice. Her parents start to move strangely... calm, precise, no longer fully themselves. And somewhere in the trees, something small, grey, and disturbingly intelligent observes her, not as prey, but as a subject. It isn’t chasing her. It’s studying her... how she moves, how she speaks, how she reacts when she’s afraid.

As Wren struggles to survive in a wilderness that no longer obeys logic, she uncovers a terrifying truth: the thing in the forest doesn’t kill people. It replaces them. It learns them. It rehearses them. And when it’s finished, it sends something back that looks and sounds exactly right... except for what’s missing inside.

Dark, atmospheric, and relentlessly tense, I SEE YOU is a psychological sci-fi horror novel about isolation, identity, and the terror of being truly understood. This is a story where escape isn’t the goal... and where survival may cost you everything that makes you human.

For readers who enjoy the unsettling wilderness and identity horror of Annihilation, the relentless survival tension of The Ruins, and the visceral, psychological dread of The Troop... I SEE YOU delivers the same creeping fear, escalating paranoia, and unforgettable sense that something is watching... and learning.