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Months after it's over, Misha still can't entirely let go. Driving past Tanvi's house he witnesses a kidnapping in progress—hers. When he attempts to intervene he's beaten, bound, and thrown into the back of a utility van with Tanvi, her ten-year-old cousin Lauren, and another teenager. The four are driven to a decaying, remote house, and told no one will be hurt if they cooperate. But soon the entire group is under siege from something far more sinister than the captors themselves.
As the house grows more hostile and the supernatural violence escalates, the fate of the kidnappers and the hostages entwine. Misha must not only fight for his life, but come to terms with the things he's done and the long shadow his father's abuse has cast over his life.
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About the author
Cara Martin is the author of several acclaimed novels for young people published under the name C. K. Kelly Martin, including a middle grade sci-fi, multiple contemporary YAs, a sci-fi duology set in 2063 and the 1980s, and an emotionally-charged ghost story. Four of these books received starred reviews and two were shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book Award. Her horror novel, Shantallow, is a young adult horror published under the name Cara Martin. Shantallow was long-listed for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and was an Ottawa Book Awards fiction finalist. Booklist described Shantallow as "serious, literary and very scary" and Kirkus called it "gut-wrenching on various levels."
A graduate of the Film Studies program at York University, Cara has lived in the Greater Toronto Area and Dublin, Ireland. Within the space of 3500 miles she’s worked a collection of quirky jobs at multiple pubs and video stores, an electricity company, a division of the Irish post office, a London toyshop, and an advertising analytics company. She’s also been an image editor for a dot-com startup that didn’t survive the 90s, and a credit note clerk for Canada's largest national distributor of General Merchandise.
Cara is a member of SF Canada — Canada's National Association of Speculative Fiction Professionals. These days she's busy writing fiction about malicious hauntings and the mysterious future, wondering what if . . . Cara currently resides in Ottawa with her husband and is still afraid of the Child Catcher from the film adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
