Adult

Patrick Cusimano’s life can’t get much worse. His brother’s girlfriend, Caro, has pushed their friendship to an uncomfortable new level, and he can’t shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends him for reasons he doesn’t understand. Meanwhile, Layla’s little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. Unless Patrick, Layla, Caro and Verna can forge their own twisted paths to peace, they’re stuck on a dangerous collision course where the stakes couldn’t be higher.

A young family moves into a small home and discover something is terribly wrong: Their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Neither Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green is prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until their two little children wander off and their voices eerily begin to return another story --- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door and of that unholy growl which soon enough will tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Howard and Deborah have sunk their life savings into the small cottage where they raise sheep and live quiet lives. When Howard has a stroke, Deborah must open the doors to lodgers, turning her home into a bed and breakfast. Two men come one night, drinking too much and complaining too loudly. The next morning, one of them is gone and the other can't even begin to pay the bill. So begins Morag Joss's latest novel, which delves into the corroded pasts of these three characters.