Not until I was heading to bed, with the spine of this book facing me, and suddenly there was a smaller version of the face staring at me in the dark. I saw the eye, of course, but didn’t notice the contouring of doll face under the snow. Boo!Ĥ) Somehow, I managed not to see the face on the front cover. Makes me anxious to read the next books, but so far my library doesn’t have any of them. We see all the crazy weather, and experience all the crazy creatures, but as for the rest, much of it is still up for discovery. The stories are very imaginative and the creatures are horrifying.Ģ) Though this book only came out in January, there are three sequels already published! Notably, the story of this volume mostly wraps up, but leaves plenty of things to uncover in future volumes.ģ) This is a post-apocalyptic novel, with very little discovered about what’s going on beyond the house-in-the-woods where Clare winds up. Dorran seems kind, but something about the house is forbidding, and something lurks out in the unnatural weather beyond.ġ) I think I’ve gotten a bit more of a measure of this author now – she tends to write creature-paranormal, not ghost- or psychic-paranormal. Something desperately hungry.Clare is in an accident during a major snowstorm, and wakes up in a stranger’s house in the middle of the woods.

something monstrous, something unfeeling. Something is waiting for her to step outside the fragile safety of the house. and increasingly certain of one thing: Her car crash wasn't an accident. Between the claustrophobic storm and the inescapable sense of being hunted, Clare is on edge. He promised they were alone here, but she sees and hears things that convince her something else is creeping about the surrounding woods, watching.

but Clare doesn't know if she can trust him. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there's nothing she can do but wait. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow.

She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. Andrews and Peng ShepardFor lovers of horror and paranormal thrillersClare remembers the cold. This propulsive, suspenseful series is:Perfect for fans of V.C. From USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates comes Book 1 in the Black Winter Series.

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