Shadowdays

In the rising shadows of a small southern town, what's past never stays in the past. And what's buried never stays dead.One of KIRKUS REVIEWS Top 100 Indie Books of 2022. "An exhilarating, sorrowful, and terrifying descent into retribution and possible madness." Starred Review, Kirkus"...a tale that will leave readers squirming in discomfort but unable to stop turning the pages" -BooklistMelissa Sweet is in a delicate state. She's a nurse in a small southern town who, after a career-ending accident and the accusations of foul play that followed, is just now starting to put her life back together. She's got her mom, her troubled brother, and her fiancé Jack to keep her grounded, and right now she's taking life one uneasy day at a time. But tormented by a harrowing act of violence, she makes an impulsive move that changes her life—and the lives of those she loves—forever. This unleashes a disorienting cycle of brutality and revelation as she reckons with the blood of her own past and the blood of those who transgressed against her.And it will force Melissa to confront the fiercest, most unrelenting monster of all: herself

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"Shadowdays has a gutpunch of an ending. You'll see it starting to move in that direction in the novel's climax, but it will hit you like a runaway freight train when it does. As dark as this one was

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