Caroline Cauldin Stepped Into the World on Christmas Eve — The Sheriff’s Daughter Is Live

Caroline Cauldin Stepped Into the World on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2025 — The official birth of The Sheriff’s Daughter.

Book cover of “The Sheriff’s Daughter — A Project Heartless Story” by C.J. Cauldin, a dark psychological thriller featuring a young woman staring out through cracked glass.

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Plans are underway for both paperback and Audible editions. I’ll announce updates here first.

On Christmas Eve, a new file quietly opened in the Project Heartless universe.

The Sheriff’s Daughter is now live on Amazon — a short, standalone psychological thriller about a girl the government once treated as a weapon, and the one moment she is forced to remember she was human first.

When a seven-year-old boy’s desperate letter reaches the myth they once called the Black Angel, Caroline Cauldin has a choice: stay buried in the dust and fire of her past, or step out of the shadows one more time and answer a child who still believes in heroes.

This story is:

  • Part psychological thriller
  • Part redemption file
  • And entirely, stubbornly human

If you’ve been following the echoes of Project Heartless — the whispers about Echo Black, the girl with the silver guns, the weapon who refused to stay obedient — this is the first time she steps onto the page in a way the world can finally touch.

It’s a one-sitting read. A small operation. A quiet intervention that still costs something.

Early readers matter more than you know. If this story unsettles you, moves you, or stays with you, your review becomes part of the record — a trace that says: yes, she landed.

🔗 Step into The Sheriff’s Daughter on Amazon

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This is File One.
Project Heartless has officially begun.

— C. J. Cauldin

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