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Lies Within Darkness Reveals the Strength That Outlasts Obsession and Control

  • Nov 21, 2025
  • 2 min read

Melbourne, Australia – November 21, 2025 – Author Leonie Blackwell announces the publication of Lies Within Darkness with Balboa Press, a psychological thriller based on true events. Releasing worldwide in paperback and eBook, the novel plunges readers into a chilling story of obsession and control–while illuminating the unshakable resilience that defies them.


Book cover featuring a shadowy face on a dark background with torn edges. Text reads "Lies Within Darkness" by Leonie Blackwell. Mood is mysterious.

Grant Crandall is calculated–mimicking charm, mirroring values, and manipulating every moment to tighten his grip. But his target, Izzy Raynor, refuses to surrender. Instead, her intuition and quiet strength become weapons against coercive control, turning a battle of shadows into a defiant stand for survival.


“I wanted readers to feel both the pressure of coercive control and the steadiness of intuition–how quiet strength breaks the spell of manipulation,” said Leonie Blackwell, author of Lies Within Darkness.


Blending the pulse of a thriller with the resonance of lived experience, Lies Within Darkness grips readers of psychological suspense while offering a timely testament to resilience in the face of darkness.

 

Publication details


  • Publisher: Balboa Press (Hay House division)

  • Publication date: November 21, 2025

  • Formats: Paperback, eBook

  • ISBNs: 979-8-7652-0403-0 (sc) 979-8-7652-0402-3 (e)

  • Pages: 290

  • Categories: Psychological Thriller; True Events; Women’s Fiction

 

Content advisory for editors/reviewers


Contains depictions of coercive control, emotional abuse, and trauma; may be confronting for some readers.


Lies Within Darkness will be available through Amazon and on my website.


Advance review copies and media interviews are available on request.

 

About Leonie Blackwell


Leonie Blackwell is an Australian author and emotional-wellness practitioner, founder of Empowered Tapping®. Her work–both fiction and non-fiction–explores resilience, intuition, and the complexities of healing after trauma.

 

Media contact


Leonie Blackwell – Author

Email: leonie@bwellinstitute.com | Phone: +61 438254466

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