Damien Angelica Walters, author of The Dead Girls Club It simmers with darkness and danger and kept me turning pages until late in the night. “ It Will Just Be Us is a beautifully written, gripping Gothic story complete with a decaying house, a dysfunctional family, and hidden secrets. Laird Hunt, author of In the House in the Dark of the Woods “ Marvelously atmospheric, emphatically suspenseful and beautifully written, Jo Kaplan’s It Will Just Be Us had my full attention from its deliciously creepy first page and kept frightening me straight through to the end.” Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of The Haunting of Ashburn House Haunting and addictive, the evocative language leads the reader along a deliciously horrifying path to an ending we both dread and wait for with held breath. “ It Will Just Be Us is a triumph of gothic fiction. “A fantastic ghost story…you should probably read during the day.” “The plot rolls out like a swirling drain…Kaplan has concocted a miasma of insanity and witchery a la We Have Always Lived in the Castle.” “This novel is so clever and effortlessly atmospheric it deserves to find a wide audience beyond the traditional horror crowd… Highly recommended.” “A rich, dense supernatural thriller… Horror fiction fans will also want to check this out.” But as the faceless boy grows stronger, Sam will learn that some doors should stay closed-and some secrets are safer locked away forever. This boy brings doom…Īs Elizabeth’s due date approaches, Sam must unravel the mysteries of Wakefield before her sister brings new life into a house marked by death. When it becomes clear the boy is connected to the room with the locked door, Sam realizes this ghost is not like the others. Already navigating her tumultuous relationship with Elizabeth, Sam is even more unsettled by the appearance of a new ghost: a faceless boy who commits disturbing acts-threatening animals, terrorizing other children, and following Sam into the depths of the house wielding a knife. In the presence of phantoms, it’s all Sam can do to disentangle past fromīut when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors,Īre filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. Wakefield’s ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp,
They say there’s a door in Wakefield that never opens…
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