Night Number Nine

THE MANUSCRIPT KNEW SHE WAS COMING.

Wren Calloway spent her career putting other people's words on the record. Then she changed one record, and the courthouse doors closed behind her.

Now she has eleven hundred dollars, a borrowed coat, and one job offer: live at Lantern Point, a shingle-style house on the dark edge of Tawas Bay, and catalog the study of a famous gothic novelist. The novelist, Delphine Ashcombe, drowned eighteen months ago. Her husband, Julian, wants her papers in order. Wren wants a paycheck and a place to hide.

In the study she finds a manuscript no one has ever mentioned: THE WOMAN WHO CAME TO CLEAN.

Chapter one describes Wren's arrival at the house. The car. The cracked windshield. The coat. Details she has told no one.

The pages are dated three months before she applied for the job.THE MANUSCRIPT KNEW SHE WAS COMING. Disgraced transcriptionist Wren Calloway takes a job cataloging a drowned novelist's study and finds a hidden manuscript describing her arrival, down to details she told no one. The pages are dated before she applied. Gothic. Twisty. Fair-play. Read it twice. BUY NIGHT NINE NOW.

And it only gets worse. Wren wakes at the typewriter with pages she does not remember typing. The pages keep arriving. The house keeps its own records, and its clocks do not agree. Wren loses time, and she is honest enough to tell you exactly how much. She is also honest enough to admit she has lied before, to a court, and to herself about the notebook she swore she burned.

Someone knows what she did. Someone wants her to finish this book. And with every chapter she reads, the manuscript gets closer to the night she is trying hardest to forget.

NIGHT NUMBER NINE is a slow-burn gothic psychological thriller with a fair-play mystery and a narrator who cannot be trusted and cannot be dismissed. Every clue is on the page. Every time-slip is marked. Every lie she tells, she tells where you can see it. And when you reach the last page, you will want to turn back to the first and read it again with a pencil.

YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK IF YOU LOVE:

•Haunted-house atmosphere with real, human danger underneath
•Unreliable narrators who confess just enough
•A dead author, a hidden manuscript, and a house that will not stay quiet
•Twists you can trace backward and find were fair all along
•The cold, lamp-lit dread of REBECCA, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, and THE SILENT PATIENT

This is not a book you skim. It is a book you survive, then reread.

The lights are on in the study. The page is in the typewriter. Somebody has already written the ending.

Will you read it before she does?

SCROLL UP AND BUY NIGHT NUMBER NINE NOW. Start tonight. Keep the lamp on.