09/01/2026
🚨New book THIS FRIDAY!
The Man Downstairs by Steven Swanson drops Friday, September 4.
When Detective Mara Ellison moves back to her hometown after her father’s death, she still believes there is something sacred inside all good people that evil cannot touch. She believes that a good person, even if standing eye-to-eye with pure evil and seeing all its unspeakable horrors, would stand firm and tall. That’s what all Pinehaven, Pennsylvania residents believe. Which is their mistake.
After a gruesome murder scene unfolds on a Pinehaven playground mere hours after Ellison’s return, the folklore of The Man Downstairs resurfaces. A long-kept secret locked in the town’s basements begins to seep out, sinking its teeth into a new generation of victims. Driven to protect her family, her reputation, and her town, Ellison finds herself thrust back into a battle she hoped she could forget: to stop The Man Downstairs from being born again.
