by Sarah Langan
First published 2026
Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm with her career in ruins. She plans to expose Mia Wright, the trad wife influencer who captivates millions with videos of her perfect life. Mia has seven children, a handsome husband, and 300 acres of pastoral paradise where she cooks from scratch and embodies idealized femininity. Jenny expects to find staged videos and calculated poses. Instead, she discovers something moves through her dreams at night. The children sing nursery rhymes that chill her blood. Her hair begins falling out in clumps. Hours vanish from her memory without explanation. The farmhouse holds secrets far darker than social media deception. As Jenny digs deeper into Mia's world, she must confront a terror that targets her specifically. The horror at Black Swan Farm waits for her alone.
Genres: horror, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-horror
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, eerie, psychological, suspenseful, unsettling
Tropes: body-horror, fish-out-of-water, gaslighting, unreliable-reality
Setting: Black Swan Farm
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
320 pages · Hardcover · Atria Books
Content warnings: body-horror, gaslighting