The Women in the Walls
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The latest compulsive, terrifying novel from Amy Lukavics, author of Daughters Unto Devils. A must for fans of American Horror Story, and the best horror writing you'll ever read.?
Something isn't right in this house.
Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she and her best friend and cousin, Margaret, know the ancient hallways inside out. Or so they think . . .
When her beloved Aunt Penelope disappears while walking in the surrounding woods, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret, meanwhile, has been spending a LOT of time in the attic. She claims she can hear her mother's voice whispering from the walls.
Shut out by her father, Lucy watches helplessly as her cousin's sanity slowly and completely unravels. And then she begins hearing voices herself . . .
Praise for Daughters unto Devils
'Deeply disturbing, truly riveting and highly recommended' Jonathan Maberry, bestselling author of Patient Zero
'Absolutely fantastic...completely defies the status quo' teenreads.com
'This isn’t a book you’ll want to miss' Maximum Pop!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this extremely dark horror novel, 17-year-old Lucy Acosta lives on her father's palatial estate, with only her Aunt Penelope and cousin Margaret for company. Lucy's father is distant and cold, except when he throws parties for the wealthy members of the mysterious country club that abuts the Acosta estate. When Penelope disappears after walking off into the forest and Margaret begins to act strange, claiming to hear her mother's voice in the walls of the mansion, Lucy who has been harming herself in secret for years begins to crumble, too. After Margaret dies gruesomely, Lucy also begins to hear voices in the walls. Readers will be invested in Lucy, not least of which because of everything Lukavics (Daughters Unto Devils) throws at her the novel features a hanging, a variety of impalements, and a dismembered and cooked human body, all described in intensely graphic detail. The story is compelling, and the mansion and its secrets are well depicted, but this ferocious story definitely isn't for the fainthearted. Ages 14 up.
