β Scribed by McMahon, Jennifer
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Family secrets and fairy lore create a shifting reality in McMahon's unsettling novel about the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl who longed to become Queen of the Fairies. Fifteen years after Lisa goes missing, her younger brother, Sam, gets a strange phone call that leads him and his girlfriend, Phoebe, to discover a book, supposedly written by the King of the Fairies, that Lisa used as her bible to cross over, and which prompts Sam and Phoebe to meet up with Sam's cousin, Evie, to see if they can figure out what happened to Lisa. Nothing is as it seems from that moment on, and Phoebe's longtime fear of a dark man in the shadows seeps back after she discovers, in true woo-woo fashion, that she is pregnant. McMahon (Promise Not to Tell) alternates between the past and present with loads of portent and foreshadowing, creating a rural Vermont chiller with a Rosemary's Baby vibe, but even after a surprising villainess emerges and more than a few disquieting passages about Lisa are burned through, many readers will remain in the dark. (May)
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βJennifer McMahon never flinches and never fails to surprise as her stories twist down unexpected roads. Donβt Breathe a Word balances love and horror as McMahon weaves a young couple into a perverse fairyland where Rosemaryβs Baby could be at home.β (Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer's Daughters )
β[A] strange and unsettling shocker ... With the taleβs outcome utterly unforeseeable even as it races along, βDonβt Breathe a Wordβ leaves you breathless.β (Wall Street Journal )
βJennifer McMahonβs novels are like the perfect winter truffle: dark, rich, earthy, and an absolute, decadent pleasure. Donβt Breathe a Word is a haunting page-turner that kept me up, spine shivering and enthralled, way past my bedtime.β (Joshilyn Jackson, NYT bestselling author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints )
βBeautifully written and spooky, Donβt Breathe a Word wraps around you and pulls you into a dark world of fairies and family secrets.β (Chevy Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing )
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