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A Horror Novel by Jacqie Walters
Subgenres:
- Domestic Thriller,
- Psychological Thriller,
- Family Drama
This book is for you if you're into...
- Haunted motherhood where family secrets turn sinister
- Psychological horror blurring reality and supernatural dread
- Estranged parent reunions that spiral into terror
From Little Stack
Mothers are meant to nurture and protect. And when they do the opposite, the pain they can inflict is absolutely devastating.
No one knows that better than Flora. She hasn’t spoken to her own mother in years. But when her newborn arrives early and her husband is still deployed, Flora is drowning. When her mother appears on her doorstep, she thinks perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to reconcile. Except things only get stranger and Flora’s grasp on reality continues to fracture, causing her to wonder exactly who her mother is and what she invited into her home.
A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this fast-paced and frightening debut about the long shadows cast by family secrets.
Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, who has arrived a few weeks early. But with her husband still deployed, Flora must navigate the newborn stage alone. As the sleepless nights pass in the loneliness of their half-empty home, the edges of her reality begin to blur. Just as Flora becomes convinced she is losing her mind, a surprising guest shows up to help: Flora's own mother, to whom she hasn't spoken in years. Can they mend their fraught relationship? Or is there more that Flora's mother isn't telling her about the events that led to their estrangement?
As stranger and scarier events unfold, Flora begins to fear that her mother's secrets have allowed something truly evil to enter her home. She must decide: is her hold on reality slipping dangerously away? Or is she, in fact, the only thing standing between a terrifying visitor and her baby?
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