**Mentored by Josh Malerman:**Through close correspondence, Ross Jeffery workshopped this novel with Josh Malerman. In similar style to Paul Tremblayand Stephen King. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author. **Previous major publications:**over 1,000 sales through Lulu Press with previous novels. Praise for Ross Jeffery: “Ross Jeffery is the two things you long for most in an author of horror: first he’s fearless. Second, he’s giving. Giving you, the reader, all the fear instead.” —Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Boxand Daphne.