Ravens Nest

What if the house you entered already knew your secrets — and had plans for you?

Ravens Nest began as a standalone dark‑suspense short story in the collaboration, Endless Worlds Vol 2. It will within the year become its own novel.

Ravens Nest — a storm soaked descent into a sentient Tasmanian manor that bends reality, memory, and time. But like many stories that arrive uninvited, it carried a shadow with it. A whisper. A surname. A thread that tugged at the wider tapestry of my universe.

When David Ongley and his girlfriend Rebecca seek refuge in the isolated mansion perched above the coastline, nothing about the night feels ordinary. The house reacts to them. Corridors shift. Doors rearrange themselves. A living book appears, its pages blank until the house decides otherwise. And as David searches for Rebecca, the manor reveals a labyrinth of numbered rooms, riddles, and visions that blur the line between memory and nightmare.

Ravens Nest stands firmly on its own, a self‑contained tale of dread, illusion, and the fragile boundaries of the mind but readers of "The Delta Witch Chronicles" may notice a familiar name woven quietly through the shadows. A small connection. A subtle echo. A reminder that some family histories run deeper than they appear, and that the past has a habit of reaching forward when least expected.

This link isn’t required to enjoy the story. It doesn’t change the plot or spoil the ending. But for those who’ve walked with Jane McKinnon through the pages of Muse, the presence of an Ongley in Ravens Nest may feel like a whisper from another corner of the same world, a soft pulse in the shared bloodline that binds the universe together.

Ravens Nest is, at its heart, a story about perception, fear, and the unseen forces that shape us. Whether you read it as a standalone nightmare or as a quiet branch of the Delta Witch mythos, the house on the hill is waiting. And it remembers everyone who enters.

A tense, atmospheric thriller perfect for readers who love haunted‑house stories with a psychological edge