The eviction notice is red.
Sarah McKenna has three days left before her life collapses completely.
Then an offer appears—too fast, too generous,...
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Lance Jepsen
Lance Jepsen writes suspense-driven thrillers where ordinary life fractures into something darker—quiet houses with impossible rules, climate catastrophes with hidden intelligence beneath the ice, and characters pushed to the edge of what they thought was real.
Blending psychological dread, science-based mystery, and creeping horror, his stories explore the thin boundary between safety and control, survival and transformation.
His novels include The Wife Program, The Quiet House: No Exceptions and Breathless Earth, thrillers for readers who love the tension of Stephen King, the science intrigue of Michael Crichton, and the relentless pace of Blake Crouch.
When he’s not writing, Lance is building new worlds, chasing unsettling ideas, and reminding readers that sometimes the most frightening thing isn’t what’s in the dark…
…it’s what’s waiting in the silence.
Lance Jepsen writes suspense-driven thrillers where ordinary life fractures into something darker—quiet houses with impossible rules, climate catastrophes with hidden intelligence beneath the ice, and characters pushed to the edge of what they thought was real.
Blending psychological dread, science-based mystery, and creeping horror, his stories explore the thin boundary between safety and control, survival and transformation.
His novels include...
Books
The Wife Program
The eviction notice is red.
Sarah McKenna has three days left before her life collapses completely.
Then an offer appears—too fast, too generous, too impossible to be real:
A live-in position at Whitlock House.
Eighty-five thousand dollars.
No questions. Total discretion.
Whitlock House is beautiful, secluded… and watching.
Behind its polished...
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THE QUIET HOUSE: NO EXCEPTIONS
Silence was supposed to save her.
Instead, it starts taking things back.
Hannah Kline is running out of ways to survive her grief.
She needs quiet.
She needs money.
She needs somewhere the past can’t reach her.
So when a discreet advertisement offers generous pay, private accommodations, and the care of a single five-year-old boy, Hannah accepts...
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Breathless Earth
A number should not be able to do this.
It shouldn’t repeat across ice cores pulled from opposite ends of the Earth. It shouldn’t appear in the air people breathe. And it definitely shouldn’t mean the clock has already started.
When a burned-out NOAA lab director discovers an impossible carbon signature buried in ancient ice, she assumes it’s a...
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Blog
You don’t notice air.
That’s the trick of it.
You notice storms. You notice fire. You notice the sea when it climbs your front porch steps and helps itself to your living room furniture. But air? Air is invisible. It’s polite. It slips into your lungs without asking for applause.
Until one day it doesn’t feel right.
In Breathless Earth, the disaster doesn’t arrive with sirens. It arrives with numbers. With readings that are just a little off. With scientists who wake up at 3:17 a.m. because...
Some houses creak. Some houses settle. Some houses make the kind of noises you blame on plumbing, old beams, wind pressing its face against the siding.
And then there are houses that don’t make any noise at all.
Those are the ones you should worry about.
The Quiet House: No Exceptions began with a simple idea: what if silence isn’t peace? What if it’s enforcement? What if the absence of sound isn’t comfort—but compliance?
In this story, the rules aren’t suggestions. They aren’t posted on a...
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