The Body
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Feb 10, 2026
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage.
Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right.
Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. No one thinks she deserves him—not even after surviving the serial cheater they wanted her to stick by—and soon they’ll all find out they were right.
Mavis is already unraveling when a brush with death shows her what real fear looks like. Soon, she’s under constant attack from all directions. As the assaults turn increasingly vicious and bizarre, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife.
And sinner or not, no one is coming to save her.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A housewife's paranoid fears are stoked by a series of inexplicable near-fatal assaults in this uneven domestic dark fantasy from Morrow (So Many Beginnings). Mavis Dwyer is seven years into a fulfilling marriage that has rescued her from the psychological oppression of her belittling ex-lover, disapproving parents, and the church she was raised in. Then her life begins to unravel. In quick succession, she is nearly killed in a car accident, barely escapes injury when an employee at a hardware store goes on a violent rampage, and fends off attackers during a home invasion. When she discovers that the perpetrators were all attendees at her wedding, and that none remembers their violent turn, Mavis is forced to consider that some malevolent influence is turning her acquaintances and loved ones against her. Morrow ultimately provides a novel explanation for Mavis's travails, but the winding path there occasionally frustrates. The narrative delves deep into Mavis's neurotic mind, which is often more flighty and distracting than it is illuminating. Still, patient readers will be rewarded with an eerie payoff.
