Dan Williams is a Northern Vermont author and soon-to-be chemistry teacher who writes fast-paced stories where modern life collides with secrets, danger, and the uncanny. His published young adult techno thriller, Last Seen Online, blends contemporary tension with the kind of dread that makes you check your phone twice.
Dan is currently working on multiple projects, including two urban fantasy novels, Soul Sucker and Pact Ink, along with a mystery and suspense novel, Unstable Bonds. When he is not writing or planning his future classroom, he is home in Vermont with his wife, Leyla, their dog Loki, and their cat Rufus the Destroyer.
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Dan Williams is a Northern Vermont author and soon-to-be chemistry teacher who writes fast-paced stories where modern life collides with secrets, danger, and the uncanny. His published young adult techno thriller, Last Seen Online, blends contemporary tension with the kind of dread that makes you check your phone twice.
Dan is currently working on multiple projects, including two urban fantasy novels, Soul Sucker and Pact Ink, along with a...
A message arrives after the funeral.
It’s from Eden Voss.
Everyone in the group chat freezes, because Eden is dead. There was the accident. The memorial. The empty desk at school that nobody wants to look at for too long. So the text has to be a glitch, or a cruel joke, or someone hacking her number for attention.
Then the messages keep coming.
They...
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I live in northern Vermont, and winter here is not background noise. It is pressure. It presses people indoors, it presses routines into ruts, and it presses secrets tighter because nobody can outrun anything when the roads are bad and the nights come early.
That’s where Last Seen Online started for me.
Not with a missing person poster. Not with a dramatic chase scene. With something quieter and worse.
A teenager dies, and the town does what towns do. People grieve, people speculate, people...