by C. J. Tudor
First published 2021
Reverend Jack Brooks drives into Chapel Croft with her fourteen-year-old daughter Flo, hoping to leave their past behind. The small village carries dark stories spanning centuries. Protestant martyrs died in flames five hundred years ago after someone betrayed them. Two teenage girls vanished without a trace three decades back. Weeks before Jack's arrival, the previous parish priest hanged himself inside the church nave. Jack finds a peculiar welcome gift waiting: an exorcism kit paired with an ominous message warning that hidden things will surface. The villagers harbor conspiracies and closely guarded secrets. As Jack and Flo settle into their new home and meet the locals, they uncover old wounds and brewing suspicions. Then Flo begins seeing visions of girls engulfed in flames. The dead refuse to rest quietly in Chapel Croft, and the mother-daughter pair must confront supernatural forces tied to the village's bloody history.
Genres: mystery, horror, supernatural, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: family-secrets, supernatural-mystery, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Chapel Croft
Period: contemporary
352 pages · Paperback · Intrínseca
Content warnings: violence