Deprived

Andrew Ryan spent his entire life fighting against humiliation, loneliness, and the darkness buried deep within his bloodline. Raised in a broken home by a mentally unstable mother in rural Kansas, he escaped poverty through intelligence, ambition, and wealth, eventually becoming one of Silicon Valley's most successful software developers.But money could not save him from the scars of emotional deprivation.When his beautiful wife, Jessica, betrays him in the cruelest way imaginable, one violent night changes everything forever. What begins as tragedy quickly descends into something far more horrifying as Andrew discovers a terrifying sense of power hidden beneath death, obsession, and control.Soon the city is paralyzed by a string of brutal murders targeting women drawn into Andrew's web of wealth, charm, and psychological manipulation. As bodies begin piling up, Detective Claudia Delacruz finds herself hunting a killer unlike any she has ever encountered-a man who is not driven simply by lust or rage, but by years of buried trauma, inherited madness, and emotional collapse.But the deeper Claudia investigates, the more disturbing the truth becomes: Andrew Ryan was not born a monster.He became one.Deprived is a chilling psychological thriller exploring trauma, loneliness, mental illness, obsession, and the terrifying consequences of untreated emotional darkness. Brutal, haunting, and deeply unsettling, J.A. Kraziestorie delivers a disturbing descent into the fractured mind of a man slowly consumed by the evil he spent his entire life trying to escape.