Dollhouses and miniatures are Riley Andreas’s life. Literally. Since 2020, Riley has been unable to leave his house, held captive by agoraphobia. With the help of his housemate Orrie, Riley has created a business building and restoring dollhouses, but he longs for more. For connection. For love.
Caring for his elderly grandmother, Brian Fitzgerald finds what he believes to be Gran’s childhood dollhouse. He brings it to Riley to be restored as a gift for Gran, not anticipating the connection he feels to the dollhouse maker—or that the dollhouse holds the key to a decades-old missing person case.
With the psychic ability to gain information by touching an object, Riley immediately knows the dollhouse isn’t Brian’s grandmother’s. Nightmares tell Riley the full story of a little boy hiding from his abusive father and uncle. As Riley and Brian grow closer, Riley shares the truth of his agoraphobia and powers with Brian. Brian is open to Riley’s psychic gift and his inability to leave the house, but when he shares one of Riley’s visions, it’s more than Brian can accept.
This book has a main character with agoraphobia who has panic attacks, and a secondary character with dementia. The story includes discussions of child abuse and child death, and a flashback to the death.
Available for Kindle preorder; releasing November 12, 2026
