[Haunted Shadows 01] • Sickness Behind Young Eyes

*You might be reading this knowing exactly who I'm talking about. Or you might not have a clue. It didn’t make many newsrags, for some reason.

But a seven year old girl killing herself is pretty newsworthy if you ask me.

There was something going on behind those young eyes. Something very old and very sick. Something there that shouldn’t have been.

Years on, those of us who still remember her are the ones in trouble. Because she comes for you. People have died, Jeremiah. Anyone who’s acknowledged her existence in the light of day or dead of night, has died. They say she comes at night. She knocks on your bedroom door.

Knock, knock, knock.*

Jeremiah Cosgrove is a paranormal investigator desperate to find a world beyond our own. It doesn't matter how much horror he has seen though, because he has never been able to prove it. Until he gets a letter from a man desperate for help. A village is being haunted, and nobody dares talk of it. Those who do are visited by something terrible.

Ella is a university student obsessed with her work, but she's slipping. Her desperate attempts to keep hold of her dreams lead her to a remote Scottish village where a tragedy has cast a shadow over the streets.

The village lives in terror, and the people hide things from the pair at every turn. As Ella and Jeremiah search for the truth they begin to uncover a dark and sordid history, one where the ghosts of the past haunt the present. The victims of it have never forgotten, and they will sure as hell will never forgive.

Beneath this village lurks a horrific secret, and those who uncover it will wish they hadn't.

* From the writer of the Fear the Dead series