FERAL

The Lovely Bones meets Stephen King’s Carrie meets Black Swan in this haunting psychological thriller with twists and turns that will keep readers guessing.

IT’S TOO LATE FOR YOU. YOU ARE DEAD. Those words float through Claire Cain’s head as she lies, broken and barely alive, after a brutal beating. And the words continue to haunt her months later, in the relentless, terrifying nightmares that plague her sleep. So when her father is offered a job in another state, Claire is hopeful that getting out of Chicago will offer a way to start anew.

But when she arrives in Peculiar, Missouri, Claire quickly realizes that the town is brimming with hidden dangers and overrun by haunting feral cats. And her fears are confirmed when a popular high school girl, Serena Sims, is suddenly found dead in the icy woods behind the school. While everyone is quick to say Serena died in an accident, Claire knows there is more to it – for she was the one who found Serena, broken and most certainly dead, surrounded by the town’s feral cats.

Now Claire vows to learn the truth about what happened, but the closer she gets to uncovering the mystery, the closer she also gets to realizing a frightening reality about herself – and her own mind – and the damage she truly sustained in that Chicago alley....

Holly Schindler is the author of the critically acclaimed YA novel A Blue So Dark, as well as Playing Hurt. She grew up with two cats she adored; one of them started out life as a feral cat. While she is a lifelong resident of Missouri (and swears her hometown has the prettiest skies around), she has never personally visited Peculiar...but the name of the town makes an author’s imagination run wild.