Sandy loves writing horror. She’s been doing it for years.
But now, her writing is turning her fans insane.
It starts with those who read her advanced reader copies. Fans devour the story—then come after Sandy. Soon, she realizes she’s trapped inside her own narrative, racing against every new chapter to survive.
Writing herself to a happy ending should be possible.
After all, she’s the author.
But as a horror writer, happy endings don’t come easily—and every attempt leaves a grisly trail behind her.
Can Sandy escape the story she created, or will her latest book be her last?
And is finally writing a bestseller worth the ultimate price?
Sandy writes horror, and she loves it, as do her fans. Her newest book is ready for publication, and ARCs have already been sent out. Now she’s trying to write her next novel, and it isn’t going well. Before long, things take a disturbing turn. At a book event, a wild-eyed woman attempts to kill Sandy, then brutally murders a fellow author before taking her own life. After Sandy returns home, another unhinged woman appears and tries to kill her again. The strange events escalate, growing more and more unsettling, until Sandy finally decides to take a stand.
This is a (sort of) follow-up to Bookmail, though it features a new cast of characters. It was brilliantly brutal, and I thought the story itself was strong; however, I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the first book. This one leaned more toward a zombie-style story, which isn’t typically a genre I enjoy. Unfortunately, there were quite a few typos, grammatical issues, and spelling errors. The husband’s name also changed from Tim to Glen before I was halfway through the book, though it’s unclear whether this was intentional, since Sandy keeps forgetting the male lead’s name in the book she’s writing. At one point, Sandy even becomes Lexi on one page. Because this is an ARC, I’m hopeful these issues will be corrected before publication. For now, though, they did make the reading experience more difficult, as they frequently pulled me out of the story.