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 The last episode wove terror on new levels of unexpected empathy, vengeance and deadly betrayal.  We were left wondering if there ever was such a power as love to force a loyal pact.  At the end of the episode was wreckage of mangled bones and flesh, but one last breath survived long enough for Michael to say, ‘The boy is alive.’Will I Wake Up is the last episode of KEPT, Season 1 of Darkside Thrillers serialized radio drama.  There are so many questions and very few answers until two women, Kenzie Pratt and Cherise Lee take life and death into their own hands.  Let us know what you think of the last moments of the novel. Host: Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network: Darkside Thrillers ProductionsAuthor and Narrator:  Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillerInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX: https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website:  https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycKEPT by Gem Wodahl will be available in November in Audiobook format.  Support the show

At the end of Episode 15, Kenzie was gripped by terror following Michael's command to Kovu to 'kill her'.  Episode 16 spins terror on new levels of unexpected empathy, vengeance and deadly betrayal.  We're left wondering if there ever was such a power as love to force loyalty.  And ask yourselves at the end if things should have gone differently for everyone.Host: Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network: Darkside Thrillers ProductionsAuthor and Narrator:  Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillerInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX: https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website:  https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycKEPT by Gem Wodahl is available at all online stores in eBook, Print Book and Audio Book formats.Support the show

In Episode 15, Ellie Titus knows she should wait for backup, but doesn’t.  Inside the darkened cathedral, Kovu waits and watches under Michael's command.  Footsteps move in the shadows. And before Ellie can understand what she has walked into, Michael’s brutal rage is unleashed. Witnessing Ellie’s attack, Kenzie panics, and Michael has no choice, but to…..  And Kovu knows her limitations.Episode 15 is the third last episode.  Two to go!Host: Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network: Darkside Thrillers ProductionsAuthor and Narrator:  Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillerInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX: https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website:  https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycKEPT by Gem Wodahl is available at all online stores in eBook, Print Book and Audio Book formats in case you can’t wait for Episode 17 to arrive.Support the show

Episode 13 witnessed Kovu’s insatiable appetite, striking down Mandy Everton and dragging her off into the miasma of doom, while Cherise waits for Michael.  In Episode 14, Kenzie’s dad, Justin Pratt, flies home unannounced, and Kenzie lies her way through this brief reunion with a fabricated fake date at a university concert, while in truth Michael arrives to take her to meet Kovu and hopes Kenzie will accept his bribe to leave  him alone,  If she refuses it, he’ll have to kill her.  And then there’s Cherise doubting she’ll make it out alive and wondering if her charmed life will pull her through.  Host: Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network: Darkside Thrillers ProductionsAuthor and Narrator:  Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillerInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX: https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website:  https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycKEPT by Gem Wodahl is available at all online stores in eBook, Print Book and Audio Book formats in case you can’t wait for Episode 17 to arrive.Support the show

In Episode 13, after Cherise’s earring makes its way into news updates as evidence, Cherise seeks truth, but discovers it comes at a high price.  Uncharted horror she never knew really existed plays out before her very eyes in a dark tunnel with an apex killer and an innocent victim.Host: Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network: Darkside Thrillers ProductionsAuthor and Narrator:  Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillerInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX: https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website:  https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycKEPT by Gem Wodahl is available at all online stores in eBook, Print Book and Audio Book formats in case you can’t wait for Episode 17 to arrive.  Support the show

Saturday comes almost too soon, and for Kenzie, it arrives wild and spiritual like a DMT-induced alternate reality.   This is IT, listeners.  Saturday paces itself from Episode 12 through to the end of the radio drama.  In Episode 12, Ellie Titus goes undercover to meet Kenzie and follow her,  Kenzie’s dad flies home, and Kenzie has to beg her dad to alter his plans so she can  meet Michael.  Cherise tells all to Michael about Kenzie harassing her, and Michael’s puts on his ‘other’ face, the face of a sociopathic liar and killer.  Stay turned on and tuned in next week for Episode 13:  Who Lives and Who Dies.Host: Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network: Darkside Thrillers ProductionsAuthor and Narrator:  Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillerInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX: https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website:  https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycKEPT by Gem Wodahl is available at all online stores in eBook, Print Book and Audio Book formats in case you can’t wait for Episode 17 to arrive.Support the show

Episode 11:  CALLERS AND LIARS, begins the last seven premium episodes taking subscribers to the end of Season 1:  KEPT by Gem Wodahl.  In this episode, Kenzie and Michael get real with each other, shedding niceties to expose their hardened truths and Kenzie's absent dad announced he's flying home to get her.  This theme of 'shedding' includes Cherise exposing Kenzie's threats.  And the detectives are moving into their intimate world of secrets.Host Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network   Darkside Thrillers Radio DramaAuthor and Narrator Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Original lyrics and music by Grace Note Music DesignEmail: [email protected] KEPT by Gem  Wodahl , available June 18  in stores and your favourite podcast platform.eBook:  ISBN:  978-0-9881651-3-7 Print book:  ISBN:  978-0-9881651-4-4Audible (the full radio drama)  ISBN: 978-0-9881651-8-2  Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillersInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX:  https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website: https://darksidethrillersraudiodrama.buzzsprout.com/ Support the show

Michael Nubold’s perfect life begins unraveling when detectives Chisholm and Titus probe into his history and therapy sessions with suspect, Grant Pauli.  And Kenzie Pratt, once again, trespasses into his intimate space, files and trauma.Host Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network   Darkside Thrillers Radio DramaAuthor and Narrator Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Email: [email protected] Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillersInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX:  https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website: https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycSupport the show

Professor Michael Nubold doesn't expect detective Chisholm's visit to his lecture hall to request information and files relating to the Mac Shelton case and decides to bring Cherise further into his affairs.  What he doesn't understand is Chisholm's intuition which leads him to immigration records on Nubold, along with his work history, and former addresses.  He is becoming a 'person of interest'.Host Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network   Darkside Thrillers Radio DramaAuthor and Narrator Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Email: [email protected] Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillersInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX:  https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website: https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DarksideThrillers-ce7ycSupport the show

In Episode 8, Michael sees the duality of Kenzie’s divided soul – her creative genius that wins the hearts of music lovers and her insatiable war against injustice that trashes anyone in her way.  Making it clear to Michael she’s coming for him, his survival instincts switch to attack mode.  The detectives get answers for the strange evidence found in the missing boy’s clothing – a red strand of hair and a diamond earring. Driven by a compulsive need to protect, Kenzie stalks Cherise, confronting her with the truth about Michael's dark, sickening tastes.Turn on and tune in to Darkside Thrillers Radio Drama, Season 1.  It’s all about KEPT by Gem Wodahl, an immersive, eight-week, serialized audio thriller that straps you into the trendy city of Waverly, gripped by unexplained disappearances, and a twelve-year-old boy who slips away without a trace.   The tunnel system under a cathedral is off limits, but when an eighteen-year old trespasser stumbles upon a hunter’s trophy, she falls into a psychological sink hole, recklessly starting a war against a sociopathic liar.  As she struggles to find truth, her own world is slowly crumbling with an estranged family, loneliness and medical alerts.  Kenzie Pratt wears her cancer like an eviction notice tattooed across her forehead.  With a shortened life-span, she’s volatile and dangerous.   KEPT swallows you into the lives of three sociopaths – one who hunts for pleasure, one who hunts for justice, and one who kills to stop her.  Oh, and I forgot to mention the two bloodhound detectives who won’t give up, and a steamy love arc that one of the sociopaths can’t live without.  Or can he?  Welcome listeners.  You are the magic!Host Elijah SummerfieldProducer/Network   Darkside Thrillers Radio DramaAuthor and Narrator Gem WodahlThis is a Darkside Thrillers production.Original lyrics and music by Grace Note Music DesignSpecial thanks to Pixabay artists.Email: [email protected] KEPT by Gem  Wodahl , available June 18  in stores and your favourite podcast platform.eBook:  ISBN:  978-0-9881651-3-7 Print book:  ISBN:  978-0-9881651-4-4Audible (the full radio drama)  ISBN: 978-0-9881651-8-2  Follow Darkside Thrillers on:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darksidethrillersInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/darkside_thrillers/?hl=enX:  https://x.com/gemwodahlauthorVisit our website: https://darksidethrillersradiodrama.buzzsprout.comSupport the show