It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, A Novel

In this highly atmospheric thriller from the Bram Stoker Awardnominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists colony... only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past.Filled to the brim with righteous fury and fright that cannot be quelled, this novel solidifies Dawson as an unstoppable force.Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost EatersSarah Carpenter is starting over. Shes on the runleaving behind her unsupportive, narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic, abusive motherand headed for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists colony on the grounds of a closed hotel. There, with no cell signal or internet to distract her, she hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together. But when Sarah uncovers the body of a young woman...