Dive into the creative minds and diverse writings of Nik James. All creative works are in progress.
UPDATE!
November
Query letter done, 2 sent off, 1 rejection. The rejection comes as no surprise and the agent couldn’t have been more kind and supportive. Many more letters to go out. Keep looking for updates as the site will be better updated.
After countless edits, rethinks, and maybe a few existential crises, the rewrite is ALMOST done. The story’s bones are stronger, the voice sharper, and the heart—undeniably intact. What started as a rough draft has now evolved into something richer, more refined, and is getting ready to face the world.
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The Dollmaster
Alfred collects Dolls. Not the kind found Angel Evanston never wanted to relive this nightmare. She has spent years running—from the past, the media, herself, and the weight of her brother’s death.
Edward Alfred Stanhope, the man the world calls The Dollmaster, is finally facing justice. Cameras roll. The public watches, hungry for a verdict.
The prosecution calls him a sadistic manipulator, a predator who turned his victims into living dolls. The defense weaves another tale, the tale of a fractured mind too broken to be truly responsible.
But Alfred isn’t just sitting in that courtroom. He is orchestrating. This isn’t just a legal battle. It's his final masterpiece. Every witness is a move. Every testimony, a trap.
Until the moment that changes everything.
The world thinks they understand the depths of his evil. They have seen the headlines. Followed the case. Heard the stories.
They have no idea. -

The Dream Thieves
Ronan is one of the raven boys - a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface - changing everything in its wake.
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lights out
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.
I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.
Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.
Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with. -

murder your employer
Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate…and where one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.
Exhibit A by Nik James is a gripping psychological thriller that follows Nicole, a woman who has endured years of trauma and finally loses faith in the justice system. Determined to reclaim her power, she takes matters into her own hands and sets out on a path of retribution.
Her journey leads her to the Criminal Zoo, a symbolic and literal space where she confronts a person who stole innocence and peace. The heart of the story revolves around Exhibit CZ7960, a pivotal encounter that could either break her or become the turning point in her healing.
It’s a raw, emotionally charged narrative about resilience, justice, and transformation, with themes that echo empowerment and the reclaiming of identity.
Want to know what music motivated the creation of Exhibit A? Take a little listen if you dare.






