Hi, I'm Saleema Ishq, 

THRILLER AUTHOR & SUSPENSE SEEKER

I don’t write what I know. I write what I fear.

My stories are based on the unsettling “what ifs” that plague my mind.

“What if this life is all a dream?”
“What if I wake up as someone else?”
“What if I’m a danger to everyone around me?”
“What if the person I trust most wants to hurt me?”

Reading thrillers has been a huge part of my OCD exposure therapy, and exploring these scenarios on the page has been equally therapeutic.

Plus, they inspire some pretty creepy and twisted tales, like my best-selling short story, Haunting Figures and The Evil Within, which was published alongside nine other phenomenal stories in the ThrillHERS anthology.

Armed with a medical background and an unquenchable thirst for research, I craft thrillers that straddle fact and fiction. Each story is a heart-racing journey that’s intentionally rooted in truth and inspired by my deepest fears.

In my fictional world, the line between reality and the macabre is breathtakingly thin. You’re invited to journey with me into the unknown, but brace yourself, because once you've entered, there's no turning back.